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BONN. May 7 ( AP) — Chancellor Helmut
Schmidt told the West German parliament
Thursday that his recent trip to the Mideast
opened a new phase in German relations with
Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.

He also said the United States decision to
discuss the nuclear arms buildup with the
Soviets was a positive sign of cooperation in
the Western alliance. During his official
report on his trip to the Mideast, Schmidt
refused to comment on recent attacks by
Israel's Prime Minister Mcnachcm Begin.
Begin called Schmidt “arrogant and greedy"
after the chancellor talked upon his arrival
here about a divided Germany's moral oblig-
ation to support the Palestinian's right to
self-determination.

Schmidt assured members of parliament
Thursday that Bonn's decision not to sell
Saudi Arabia arms would not effect economic
and political ties between the two countries.
“If West Germany as an ally had the oppor-
tunity to support Saudi Arabia's defense situ-
ation, die Kingdom would view that as a
friendly act," said Schmidt.

“West Germany has opened a new phase
of relations with Saudi Arabia and its neigh-
boring state of the United Arab Emirates,"
Schmidt said. He reminded parliament that a
change in West German laws could allow
such weapons sale to be reconsidered.

Schmidt asks
Israel to act
with restraint

BONN, May 7 (R). — Chancellor Helmut
bctimidt. under vehement attack from Israeli
Premier Mcnahcm Begin, pleaded for-
restraint between the two countries Tuesday!
and warned ugainst “exaggerated polemics." '
In a l.-w-key speech to the Bundestag
(lower house), lie defended himself only indi-
rectly against Begin’ s charge that he had lost
sight of German responsibility for the slaugh-
ter of European Jews in World War II.

Schmidt, whose war role was again
denounced by Begin Wednesday, said recent
events had shown dearly that West Germany
was affected by conflicts that were not its
own. “Let us, therefore, beware of getting
exited, let us beware of exaggerated polem-
ics, but let us also beware of dangerous simp-
lifications." he said. Apparently addressing
Israel, he added: “I would be glad if my
request for moderation could also find a hear-
ing beyond our borders.”

Schmidt seemed intent on riding out the
strom of Israeli criticis over statements
accepting Palestinian claims to self-
determination which he made last week after
visiting Saudi Arabia and the United Arab
Emirates.

The chancellor, told the house he would
not go beyond earlier comments. A govern-
ment spokesman had Monday accused Begin
of electioneering and making insulting
remarks.

“I do not want to add anything to that
precisely because 1 am aware of the special
moral and historical quality of German-
Isracii relations," be said. Jn the text distri-
buted to journalists the word ” because" was
underlined for emphasis.

West German television said Wednesday
night the attacks on Schmidt were defamat-
ory. inexusablc and bordered on “deliberate
character assassination.” But despite an offi-
cal Israeli protest over Schmidt’s remarks.
Bonn refrained from taking similar action
Wednesday when Israeli envoy Yohanan
Meroz was told by a senior foreign ministry
official of displeasure at the Israeli criticizm.

Thursday, recalling that Israel was marking
its 33rd anniversary, he said he continued to
hope for “a just and comprehensive peace
between Israelis and Arabs. Saying he spoke
for all Germans, he added: " Let us as before
be guided by moderation, reason and readi-
ness for reconciliation."

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By U.S. technolog y

Israelis tan destroy
Syrian SAM batteries

Austria ready to sell arms

By Bob l-rfi Eng
Washington Bureau 1 .

WASHINGTON, May 7 — Thanks to
advanced American technology, Israerbas
the capability of knocking out ail of the
Syrian "anti-aircraft missile batteries now in
place in central Lebanon, according to
authoritative defense sources here. *
Israel 1 s F- 15 fighter jets are equipped with
a sophisticated electronic system known as
the “Black Box”, which can detect and iden-
tify specific missile site locations on the
ground, and then drown out or distort the
command guidance signals sent to specific
missiles launched from those sites, the
sources said.

The combined radar and jamming system
aboard the F- 15s would enable Israeli jets to
eliminate Syria's SAM-6 missile batteries
with little difficulty, the sources said.

The system, an upgraded version of the ope
used by UJS. aircraft against Soviet-built an
S A Vf missiles during the Vietnam war, is now
standard equipment aboard the F- 15.

It combines the Northrop defense systejns
An/ALO-135 countermeasures set with me
Loral Corporation AN/ALR-56 threat warn-
ing system, sources said, [

The threat warning system detects recog-
nizable characteristics of ground-based njis-
sile radars, such-as the SAM-6, and projects
specific missile battery locations, with iden-
tifying symbols, on a screen inside the F-JI5
cockpit. I

The most immediate threat in the areh is
enclosed within a diamond on the screen.

When a missile battery is detected, the
AN/ALR-56 warning system then directs
electronic jamming powerat the target, draw-
ing on the AN/ALO-135 countermeasures
set.

_ The system then jams — i.c., drowns out or
distorts — the signals from the ground- based
S A M battery designed to guide the missiles to
their target.

This prevents the SAM missiles from hit-
ting the F-I5s, and enables the aircraft to
knock out the ground batteries.

Israefs F— ♦ Phantoms are not equipped
with the “Black Box" system. U.S. defense
sources arc therefore convinced that if Israel
attempts to rake out the Syrian anti-aircraft
missile batteries in Lebanon, the F-l 5 will be
the instrument employed.

In another development a^senior Slate
Department official on Wednesday urged
that the U.S. Congress be patient and wait for
the Reagan administration's full rationale
behind its decision to sell five A WACS radar
planes to Saudi Arabia.

“I hope that yon will reserve judgment
until the details can be worked out,” said
James L. Buckley, undersecretary of state for
security assistance, in testimony before the
House of Representatives Appropriations
Subcommittee on foreign operations.

Buckley told thepanel that he believes the
full data will “allay many of your fears” about
the proposed sale, which the administration
wants to include in a multibiliion-dollar arms
package for Saudi Arabia.

FILE PHOTO: This is a file photo of a missile — satellite tracking plane Hwi f blew up
killing 21 crew members at Walkersville, UJS. Wednesday.

Missile tracking jet crashes

WASHINGTON, May 7( R) — A U.S. Air
Force jet loaded with top secret communica-
tions equipment crashed during a flight about
80 kms northwest of here Wednesday, killing
all 21 crew members.

Witnesses reported seeing a huge explo-
sion in the sky shortly after the aircraft van-
ished from radar • screens while flying at
29,000 feet above central Maryland. A
spokesman for the Federal Aviation
Administration (FA A) said the wide area
over which the wrecakage was scattered
appeared consistent with a mid-air explosion
but would not comment on the possible cause
pending an investigation by the air force.

The EC- 135 jet, a military version of the
Boeing- 707, has a bulbous nose cone carry-

ing advanced military tracking gear and was
loaded with highly classified electronic
equipment, the spokesman said. EC- 135 are
used to monitor signals from missiles and
satellites, he said.

Parts of the plane landed in open fields and
the area was sealed off after the crash. Police
appealed to people to turn in any document
or equipment they found, although the air
force saii J later that no classified documents
were on hoard.

Meanwhile, Pentagon sources said Wed-
nesday Prudent Reagan is almosr certain to
approve a new version of the scrapped B- 1
bomber equipped with some radar-eluding
“ stealth ’’ technology as the replacement for
the ageing B-52 fleet.

Basques bomb car, 3 army men die

MADRID, May 7 ( AP) — 1 Terrorists on a
motorbike killed three army men and
wounded King Juan Carlos' military adviser
Thursday by placing an explosive charge on
the roof of an official army car as it stopped
for a red light.

The blast broke windows five stories up
and injured several other persons as the two
bombers on a black bike sped away. Police
quickly arrested two men answering the kil-
lers' description as they tried to put a motor-
bike in a van in park near the blast scene, and
after reports of a shootout. Both were
released after an identification check.

Without saying why, a police official
Named the Basque separatist organization
ETA for the attack, two days after another

radical left terrorist organization assassinated
a general and three policemen in Spain. The
new bloodshed raised to 25 the number killed
in political violence this year and set off a
brief spontaneous demonstration by angry
citizens against the government at the slaying
site. Several shouted for another military
coup and return to the Franco dictatorship.

The explosive charge in a plastic shopping
bay from a leading Madrid department store
blasted a hole in the roof above the driver of
the Dodge Dart car, beheading soldier- driver
Carlos Taboada and killing Lt. Col. Guilermo
Tebar, aide to Gen. Joaquin de Valencula,
69, head of King Juan Carlos’ military house-
hold. The explosion also killed bodyguard Lt.
Jose Ledesma.

Kreisky leaves
for home after
successful visit

JEDDAH, May 7 (SPA) — Austrian
Chancellor Dr. Bruno Kreisky and his deleg-
ation left here Thursday for home after a
three-day official visit to Saudi Arabia.
Kreisky was seen off in Riyadh by Crown
Prince Fahd before arriving here to board the
plane for Vienna.

The Austrian leader held talks with Saudi
Arabian officials on means of promoting
bilateral relations and a number of interna-
tional issues led by the Palestine and the
Middle East cause.

Wednesday night Kreisky told a press con-
ference in Riyadh that he was unaware of a
new European peace initiative, but urged
European leaders to join hands with the Arab
states to change the United Stales attitude
when discussing any settlement to the prob-
lem.

The Europeans have begun to understand
the importance, the danger inherent in the
Palestinian problem and the necessity to find
a solution for it, Kreisky said. There is an
identity of views between Saudi Arabia and
Austria on many an international issue, par-
ticularly the Middle East problem and the
necessity for the Palestinian people to obtain
its legitimate right, especially the right to sec
up an independent homeland, he said.

Kreisky hailed relations between Saudi
Arabia and Austria in the various fields. He
recalled that his country was the first in west-
ern Europe to recognize the Palestine Libera-
tion Organization and establish diplomatic
relations with it. Such a recognition will be a
helping factor in bringing about European
recognition of the Palestinian people's rights,
he said.

The chancellor said he does not believe
that other countries should submit finished
solutions to the Palestinian case; “but there
are well-established solutions and principles
for the problem, most important among
which is Israel's recognition of the Pal estinian
people's right to independent statehood, in
return to a Palestinian recognition of Israel's
right to exist.”

He added that such a process would pre-
pare the proper climate for a dialogue bet-
ween die two sides to resolve the various
problems. He stressed that submitting solu-
tions to the problem is the responsibility of
the parties concerned. He described his meet-
ing with PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat in
Riyadh Tuesday as a mere coincidence.
Kreisky, who visited Saudi Arabia for the
• third time, said he has had lengthy talks with
the Saudi leaders during which he exchanged
views on all the problems of mutual interest.
He described his talks as “very successful.”
Hesaid he visited die Kingdom for the first
time, six years ago, in bis capacity as the head
of a Socialist International fact finding mis-
sion about the Palestinian problem and the
Palestinian people' s right seen from the Arab
countries' angle. The mission then drafted a
report about what it beard from Arab offi-
cials.

My second visit last year was extremely
successful, he added, because it helped
improve and foster Saudi- Austrian economic
relations. He pointed out in this concern that
io the wake of the Iraqi-iranian war, Saudi
Arabia bec&me the number one oil exporter
to Austria since last year. It ships oil averag-
ing $400 million a year to Austria which is
keen on expanding the scope of trade and
economic relations with the Kingdom, adding
that Austria is also looking forward io
increase its exports to Saudi Arabia to offset
the trade balance deficit which now runs in
favor of the Kingdom.

Kreisky prod aimed his government’s read-
iness to approve any arms sales to Saudi
Arabia. “The Austrian government is ready
io authorize the export of any arms requested
by the Kingdom from Austrian arms man-
ufacturers,” he said. He added, however, that
such transactions fall within the competence
of the arms manufacturers alone. Austrian
government had never interfere m such mat-
ters at all, except for granting the export
license according to Austrian laws, he said.

The Austrian leader also accused Israel of
exacerbating tension in what he called the
Lebanese calamity and regretted the inability

Israel moves heavy artillery into south Lebanon

BEIRUT, May 7 ( AP) — Israel has moved
sis batteries of long range and heavy artillery
into the Israel-backed Christian enclave in
southern Lebanon. The officials and the joint
Palesiinian-Lebanese national command
said Wednesday the Israeli guns were moved
into die eastern sector of the "free Lebanon’’
enclave controlled by Lebanese Army Maj.
Sauil Haddad. Haddad's forces, who act as a
buffer between Israel and Palestinian com-
mandos in southern Lebanon, are armed and
funded bv Israel.

Earlier, clashes in the southern Lebanese
village of Deir Kanoun, 16 miles (25 km)
north of Israel, between the pro-Iranian
Lebanese militias and the private :n im of the
Communist National Movement, left five
people killed. Officials said eight others were
kidnapped.

Meanwhile, Syria moved two armored
brigades past- Israel's "red line" in Lebanon
Thursday as the Soviet Union criticized the
VS. diplomatic effort to defuse the Syrian-

Israeli missile crisis, Lebanese government
sources reported. I

They said Syrian troops and tanks were
taking up positions in Sehmor and Yehmor in
the weslcmflank of Lebanon's Bckku Valley
and in Kfar Tihnit. just eight miles ( 1 2 km)
north of Israel's northernmost town of
Metulia in southern Lebanon.

There was no immediate official Syrian
comment on the report, which, if accurate,
would put Syria’s forward-most positions in
southern and eastern Lebanon 12 mile- 1 19
km) beyond the “red line" Israel drew for
Syria's military activity and presence in
Lebanon five wars ago.

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Syrian troop.* equippa. witn Link- .uid
armored cars were deploying in the three
towns south of the 25-mile-long (40 km)
Zahrani River ‘red line'. The sources said this
was the first time the Syrians had punched so
deep into southern Lebanon since they inter-
vened in 1976 to smother Ixbanon's

Muslim -Christian civil war.

Israel has frequently warned Syria would
risk war with the Jewish state if Syria’s
peacekeeping troops crossed the red line.

The reported military movements came as
Soviet First Deputy Foreign Minister Georgy
M. Komiyenko began talksin Damascus with
Syrian government leaders •including foreign
minister Khaddam.on the Syrian- Israeli mis-
sile confrontation. The Soviet Union and
Syria have a 20-year friendship treaty that
provides lor emergency consultations if
either nation is attacked or threatened with
aggression.

Israel threatened military actiun to remove
. t : i.i u vMrtcrn 1 ehanon if

ihe\ were not ,\ till drawn as a re%u It of super-
power diplomacy. Israel claims their pres-
ence threatens its own security and could
restrict its freedom to attack Palestinian
commando strongholds in Lebanon.

Hie report was leaked shortly before the
arrival in Beirut of U.S. President Ronald

Reagan's special envoy Philip C. Habib to
begin a three-nation tour aimed at resolving
the missile crisis that has brought Syria and
Israel on the brink of a new Midde East war.

High-flying Israeli jets crashed the sound
barrier over Beirut and the eastern Bckku
Valley province where the Soviet-made
SAVf-6 missile batteries were deployed,
reporters said from Bekku. But the sonic
booms drew no response from the SAMs for
the second straight day. As Syria and Israel
nervously rattled their sabres, a former
Lebanese president called on Habib to “deal
with the Lebanon problem from the roots,
charging the Syrian peacekeeping army has
changed into an occupation force in Leba-
non.

Meanwhile, U.S. envoy Habib arrived in
Damascus Thursday and left immediately by
car for Beirut on the first leg of a peace mis-
sion that will take him to Syria and Israel. He
was unable to fly to the Lebanese capital
because the airport there had been closed due
to fighting since last month.

(SPA photo)

KREISKY LEAVES: Austrian Chancellor Bruno Kreisky walks to the plane in Riyadh
after his three-day visit to the Kingdom. Crown Prince Fahd saw the Austrian leader off
who left for home Thursday from Jeddah,
of international forces to contain the situa-

tion in the country's region.

Asked whether he feared a personal attack
on him by Israel like' the campaign West
German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt has
been subjected to since his recent statements
in Saudi Arabia. Kreisky said he hud nothing
to do with Israeli government. He added that
he had become insensitive for quite a long

time to such Zionist media campaigns sir
much they had been launched against him,,
especially on the pan of the present Israeli ’’
government.

On the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan,
Kreisky reaffirmed the international com-
munity's rejection of such an act against an
independent state, member of the United
Nations Organization.

Thousands attend funeral

Bobby Sands laid to rest

BELFAST. May 7 (API - Tens of
thousands of mourners' from all over Ireland
gathered for the funeral Thursday of IRA
hunger-striker Bobby Sands.

At an hour-long requiem mass mourner,
many wearing black arm bands, heard Sands’
parish priest appeal for restraint “in these
critical days." Hundreds of the more than
1,000 persons who crammed into St. Luke’s
Church in the west Belfast Catholic district
took communion. The vessels for the sacra-
ment were first handed to the priest by Sands'
son, Gerard, 7.

The small boy, who was dry-eyed, was
assisted by Sands' sister Marcella Kelly, and
brother, Sean.

After the restrained service, the light oak
coffin, dosed and with a single candle on top.
was carried outside where some 20,000
mourners waited.

Six hooded Irish Republican Army men,
wearing combat jackets and black berets,
who formed a guard of honor, draped the
closed coffin in the green, white and orange
tricolor of the Irish Republic.

An army helicopter hovered overhead as
Sands' coffin, carried initially by four pall-
bearers and then placed in a hearse, began its
slow procession 3 Vz miles ; to MiJItown
cemetary. A six-man IRA honor guard
escorted the coffin.

It was one of the biggest funerals in North-

ern Ireland since sectarian violence erupted
1 1 \‘z years ago — and m which nearly 2.100
persons have died. Hundreds of bare-headed -
women, carrying yellow and white wreaths,
followed the coffin at the head of the proces-
sion.

During the mass, dozens of members of the
outlawed Irish Republican Armv’s militant
"provisional" wing heard the" officiating
priest, the Rev. Liam Vlullan, quote Christ's
injunction to “love one another us 1 have
loved you." “ We can put this into practise
today by striving in these critical days for
peace for restraint, for moderation and an
end of violence." said Mullan. flanked by two
other priests and five altar boys in red and
white cassocks.

Mullan added that further Catholic-
Protestant violence “would be an insult to-the
work, to the life and to the memory of Bobby
Sands."

Sands’ wife, Geraldine, from whom he was
separated, did not attend the funeral. She
lives in England, and radio reports quoted
relatives as saying she disagreed with Sands’
views and would never return to Ireland. As
Catholics mourned Sands, to many another
martyr in the cause of Irish unity, some 3.000
Prorestunts gathered at Belfast's city hall
where hardline proteslant leader, Tian Pais-
ley. led a rally to honor victims of IRA viol-
ence.

Heathrow closed by strike

LONDON, May 7 ( AP) — Air traffic con-
trollers walked off the job at London's
Heathrow Airport Thursday morning, shut-
ting down the facility in a continuing battle
over civil service pay raises. Controllers at the
Manchester Airport were told not to report
to work and controllers at other British air-
ports were told not to handle planes diverted
from Heathrow.

The Council of Civil Service Unions
warned that the London air control center at
West Drayton and the Liverpool Airport
would be struck Friday. Only one air traffic
controller showed up for work at Heathrow
Thursday. British Airways alone was forced

to cancel 130 flights using the airport. The
three main terminals were almost deserted.

"Nearly all our cancellations are on our
European and internal services," said a Brit-
ish Airways spokesman. “ We are hoping to
operate a near-normal service in the after-
noon.” The strikes are usually for half a day.
British civil servants are using a series of
rotating half-day Mrik&s to press fora 15 per
cent pay hike and demand that future slary
increases be pegged to wages in private busi-
ness. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's
Conservative government has refused to
back down from its intentions of holding
down civil service salaries to cut spending.

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Moro Front leader denies merger

By a Staff Writer

JEDDAH, May 7 — Nur Misuari, leader
of the Moro National Liberation Front in the
Southern Philippines, told Arab News Wed-
nesday that it is impossible for MNLF to
merge with die Communist New People's
Army (NPA) in the Philippines.

The accusations against Nur Misuari and
his group were made Tuesday by General
Salipada Pendatun, bead of die Muslim
Association of the Philippines in Manila. The
report was carried by the French News
Agency (AFP) and published in Arab News
Wednesday. Pendatun said that there was a
danger die MNLF could merge with the NPA
if the Southern Philippines conflict was not

resolved. He said that all ppliticai. parties in
the Philippines will boycott the forthcoming
presidential elections in, June "because
nobody U running against Marcos." The
MNLF is now seeking self-determination and
independence in the South.

Misuari made the statements after a meet-
ing with QIC Secretary General Habib
Cbatti. He praised the QIC for its effective
support of the front “in its just cause and
struggle.” He arrived here last week at the
invitation of the OIC and the Quadripartite
Ministerial Committee (Saudi Arabia,
Somalia, Senegal, and Libya in addition to
the OIC) whicb he addressed on May 3 at the
OIC General Secretariat. The committee's

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MEETING: Deputy Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdul Rahman Mansouri met with a senior
aide of the Dutch foreign ministry, Anthony Dnrantes, who called on him at the foreign
ministry Wednesday. The meeting, attended by the Dutch ambassador, dealt with the
situation in flic Middle East.

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Conference held in Makkah-Taif last January
to prepare a new resolution to be submitted
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The MNLF leader said he briefed the
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Japan, Kingdom
form alliance
on oil complex

TOKYO, May 7 (AP) — A Japanese'
investment company for the promotion of a
giant Japan-Saudi Arabian petrochemical
complex in eastern Saudi Arabia was estab-
lished Thursday.

Japan's Kyodo News Service said the Saudi
Petrochemical Development Co. (SPDC) is
headed by the vice-chairman of the Mit-
subishi Corp.

SPDC will sign a formal agreement on the
promotion of the project with the state-
owned Saudi Baric Industries Corp. (S ABIC)
in Riyadh on May 20, the news agenc^said.

The Japanese government also will invest
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tion with Saudi Arabia, Kyodo said.

Under the present plan, the complex, to be
built in Jubail, will produce various pet-
rochemical products equivalent to 230,000
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Total investments in the project are esti
mated at about 330,000 mfllion yen (roughly
$1,534 billion) of which 30 per cent mil be
provided by SABIC and SPDC on an equal
basis and the remaining 233,000 million yen
($1,083 billion) to be covered by loans from
financial institutions in Saudi Arabia and

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Solar desalt plant

JEDDAH, May 7 — The first desalination
plant to operate by solar energy will be
opened by Governor Prince Majed Sunday at
a special ceremony at Obfaor creek, according
to At Medina Thursday.

Public transport bases harmed

RIYADH, May 7 — The traffic depart-
ment of the Interior Ministry has banned the
use of public transport buses from plying m
the cities served by the Saudi Arabian Public
Transport Company (SAPTCO). Such buses
must be withdrawn from Mecca, Medina.
Riyadh, Jeddah, Dammam, Khobar,
Dhahran and Taif.

New showrooms for cars

JEDDAH, May 7 — The new site for all
car showrooms and workshops south of the.
city, near the housing project on Makkah
Road, will be ready for use in six months.
Nearly 150 car showrooms will be transferred
there in an area of 1 ,400,000 square meters.

Forger deported

JEDDAH. May 7 — A Pakistani
national was sentenced to one year impris-
onment, a fine of SRI, 000 and deportation
on charges of forging a residence permit,
according to a report by the Interior Ministry
Thursday.

Ceremony marks
new phone office

RIYADH. May 7 — Sharif Arif bin Ali,
general manager for the Ministry of Posts,
Telegraphs and Telephones, and Central Dis-
trict Manager Muhammad Sadik Ibrahim,
were the guests of honor at a groundbreaking
ceremony Thursday.

The ceremony marked the beginning of
construction of the new central district
administration building, which is being
erected as part of the Kingdom's telephone
.expansion program, Saudi Telephone
■reported.

The central district administration building
is to be situatedin a prominent location ne xt to
the main entrance to the Ministry of PTT
complex here, the report added. The budd-
ing will be a four-story structure, with a total
floor space of 2 ,800 square meters.

In other Saudi Telephone news, five young
Saudi Arabian Telephone managers will
return soon from a four-month training
course in Canada. The youths are being
trained to operate the sophisticated comput-
ers in the telephone company’s data center,
which officials have said to be the most
advanced facility of its kind in the Mideast.

The advanced computer training program
is designed to give students detailed instruc- i
tion on the various “software" systems of the
computer, Saudi Telephone reported. A
company press report said Saudi Telephone
has established the most rigorous training
program in Saudi Arabia in order to train
approximately 100 Saudi Arabian managers |
in the intricacies of the worid of the cotnpu- j
ter. The program is expected to be completed l
in 1983.

Sultan to attend graduation

DAMMAM, May 7 (SPA) — Defense"
Minister Prince Sultan will attend Tuesday a
graduation ceremony of the first class of cadets
from the technical training institute of the
naval forces in Jubail, on the Gulf coast. He
will visit the region Saturday for an inspection
tour. ...

Maternity hospital planned

MEDINA, May 7 — A new maternity and
child welfare hospital will be built here with a
capacity for 500 beds. Construction wll start
in 10 months and will be completed in two
years from then, according to Al Riyadh
Thursday.

Islandc economics discussed

BADEN BADEN, May 7 (SPA) — King
Abdul Aziz and King Faisal universities are
taking part in a seminar on Islamic banking
and the Islamic economic system which
opened here Wednesday evening. Sixty lead-
ing Islamic and European bankers are also
participating. Four committees have been set
up to discuss ways of taking advantage of
both systems in international financing.

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FRIDAY, MAY 8, 1 98]

MWL decides
to print Quran
in 19 languages

By a Staff YYriter

MAKKAH, May 7 — The Muslim World
League (MWL) has decided to translate and
prim the holy Quran into 19 languages for
distribution in countries and communities
where they are used, according to a resolu-
tion taken by the committee for the publica-
tion and distribution of the holy book.

A meeting of the committee was held dur-
ing the week here and attended by leading
members of the league. They derided to have
die Quran distributed worldwide and to
translate it into 19 languages including
Japanese, .African, South East Asian and
Europeans and to set up facilities to teach the
Quran by correspondence, audio and visual
methods.

An institute will be built in Nigeria to give
instructions in the Quran and jurisprudence.
A similar center has already been in opera-
tion in Mauritania which graduated 30
instructors who were in turn assigned for ser-
vice in others African countries. Sixty other
are expected to qualify this year, the commit-
tee said.

A member of the committee Sheikh
Ahmad Salah Jamjoora told Al Riyadh news-
paper Thursday that the committee was given
the task to spread the word of God all over
the world by making the holy book available
in as many pi aces and countries as possible
through "mosques, centers, universities,
institutions, by both printed and recorded
methods. He said the government of the
Kingdom was giving generous aid towards
printing costs and that the Quran was already
being printed in Indonesia and will soon be
printed in Turkey and inside the Kingdom for
distribution elsewhere.

Earlier in the week the government
announced that it was authorizing the print-
ing of two million copies of the holy book on
behalf of Makkah in response to a suggestion
by the league that each member state should
print one million copies for distribtuion.

The league's office in Africa has advised
tile head office here that it had already
started distributing copies in English and
French with full translation of its meanings
for distribution to the school as part of a plan
to print two million copies in the first stage.

OPENING: An exhibition of Safeya Binzagr’s paintings will be inaugurated under the
auspices of Makkah Governor Prince Majed Saturday evening at Redec gallery. The
exhibition will run from May 9 through 20.

Canadian official to pay visit

By a Staff Writer

JEDDAH, May 7 — Allan J. MacEachen,
deputy prime minister of Canada and minis-
ter of finance, will leave Ottawa jCanada, May
9 for official visits to Saudi Arabia and
Kuwait for a series of international confer-
ences in Gabon, West Africa, the Canadian
embassy reported Thursday.

MacEachen will arrive in Riyadh on May
1 1 for an official two-day visit. He will visit
Kuwait on May 16.

FROM THE GULF

ABU DHABI, May 7 (WAM) — Sheikh S Zayed bin Sultan /u-Nahyan received at Abu
Ahmed bin Abdul Aziz, chief of the UAE | Al Abyat Island resthouse Thursday Yasser
sharia* law left here Thursday for Paris, en- \ Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation

route to Rabat, Morocco, to participate in
meetings of a symposium on social defense
and criminal policy due to open there next*
Wednesday.

The foree-day symposium will be attended
by representatives from the Arab mimsteries
of justice, Islamic affairs, labor and social
affairs.

The symposium sponsored by the sec-
retariat general of the Arab Organization for
Social Defense will review the advantages of
the Islamic sharia, regarding the checking up
of crimes. Sheikh Ahmed will present at the
symposium a research on protective meas-
ures against the crimes in Islamic Sharia.

ABU DHABI, May 7 (WAM) - Dr.
Ahmed Shire Muhamoud, Somali minister of
justice and Islamic affairs left here Thursday
for home- wrapping up a several days visit to
the UAE during winch he initialled with his
UAE counterpart an agreement on judiciary
cooperation between Somalia and die UAE.

Leaving aboard the same plane was Somali
Defense Minister Omer Haj Muhammad
after a visit of two-days in the course of a tour
which took him to a number of states in the
Gulf.

The two ministers were seen off at the air-
port by senforoffidals from the defense- and
justice ministries and Somali ambassador
accredited to the UAE,' Abdulla Haj Abdul
Rahman

ABU AL ABYAT, May 7 (WAM) — .
United Arab Emirates President Sheikh

Organization.

In a statement after the meeting, Arafat
said that held “cordial and positive" talks
with the president covering all issues regard-
ing the Arab region, latest developments in
the Palestinian, Arab and international
arena, as well as (Israeli) barbarian sea, air
and land attacks on the Lebanese and Pales-
tinian people.

He also said that his talks with Sheikh
■Zayed covered the recent Israel military
[build up in south Lebanon and threats it
Eposes to the Palestinian resistance and Arab
peterrent Forces (ADF).

I , Arafat added that he reviewed with Presi-
dent Sheikh Zayed the relations between the
JAE and PLO.

He pointed out that the briefed the presi-
dent on aD current developments, adding that
) resident reiterated, the UAFs firm stand
award supporting the Palestinian people and
ts just cause.

The audience was attended by Sheikh
duhammad bin Butti, Abu Dhabi ruler's
epresentative in die Western region and
h airman of the municipality^ Rashid
Vbdalla, minister of state for foreign affairs;
Jani Al-Hassan, member of Fatah central
j immittee and political advisor of Yasser
i rafat; and Ribhi A wad PLO representative
i the UAE. Later Arafat left here for
I araascus ending a five-day, nation tour that
1 IS taken him to Saudi Arabia, Kuwait,
.1 ihrain, Qatar and the UAE.

A rafat was seen off at the airport by minis-
ti r of state for foreign affairs Rashid Abdalla,
dper senior officials at thenrinistry and
FfcO*s representative in the UAE Ribhi

The focus of talks in both countries will be
on the development of bilateral relations, but
discussions are also expected to deal with
multilateral issues, particularly financial and
monetary questions.

The deputy prime minister is visiting Saudi
Arabia at the invitation of Minister of
Finance Muhammad Aba Al Khaii, and will
meet with other government representatives. -

He also will hold discussions with the Saudi
Arabian Monetary Agency (SAMA). In
Kuwait be will be the guest of minister of finance
and planning, Abdul Latif AI- Hamad.

MacEachen will then fly to Libreville,
Gabon, on May 18 for three days of interna-
tional conferences.

COMMENT

By Mahmoud Sukkari
Okaz

The ettjiblishment of the Real Estate
Development Fund had delighted many,
for it helped in the construction of
thousands of buildings in the country and,
at the Same time, proved a great assistance
to many who wanted to build modest
houses for their person al dwelling . But the
fact remains that those who actually
deserved shelter for their family could not
benefit from this fund at all.

As is known, the first condition for
obtaining a building loan from the fund is
that one must have a pieoe of land and at
least 30 per cent of the total cost of the
projected construction. In my view, only a
well-to-do person can afford to fulfill
these conditions, otherwise a deserving
person is one who does not either own a
plot or possess funds to erect a building on
it. It is, however, a considered opinion that
anyone owning a piece of land and posses-
sing, say, SRI 00,000 can afford to live a
good and comfortable life with his family.

Therefore, it would seem more desir-
able that the fund entertains the cases of
many of those who do not have either of
these facilities with them. Besides, the ..
fund can easily undertake housing pro- .
jects for such . deserving people and ,
recover the costs of the bouses in easy,
installments on a long-term basis.

If the fund reshicts its services to those
who already possess {and and SR100,000,

- or above,, it would. ,n« be able to serve

those for whom it was actually set up. .

PAGE 3

WASHINGTON. — Afghanistan has
largely dropped from the headlines since
the invasion by Soviet troops in December
1979. Yet the country remains as much as
ever in turmoil, with the provinces in revolt
against the alien occupier and a constant
stream of refugees leaving their war- tom
villages for sanctuary in Pakistan.

One of those refugees, in a sense, is Louis
Dupree, an American anthropologist who
through bis work in Afghanistan over the
past 30 years has acquired an unrivaled
knowledge of its political affairs. On a
recent visit to Washington to lobby for the
sending of American arms to the Afghan
resistance fighters, Dupree talked about the
latest vicissitudes in the country’s turbulent
political histoiy.

A member <rf the American Universities
Field Staff and the University of Pennsyl-
vania, Dupree is the author of Afghanistan
(Princeton, 1973), a culturai and political
history of the country. Unlike some scholars
who choose to cultivate no larger an area
than they can keep exclusive, Dupree's
range of interest m Afghanistan extends
from its Neolithic a rcbeology to its contem-
porary politics.

In the latter domain, his expertise is
based on a circle of acquaintances that
extends to all parts of Afghan society. His
bouse in Kabul was something of a floating
international seminar, a unique meeting
place for Afghans and foreigners, Russians
and Westerners, visitors and residents.

Dupree sees the present debacle in
Afghanistan as the product of general mis-
calculation. The Russians, he 'believes,
planned a Dominican Republic-style inva-
sion, after which they could pull out. But
now they are stuck.” As for the Afghan
leadership, its politics may have been Marx-
ist, but more in the style of Groucho than
Karl. Almost entirely Western-educated,
but during the period of the cold war, the
Afghan leaders, attempted to play off the
Russians and Americans in traditional fash-
ion, and were bewildered when the Ameri-
cans, in a spasm of post- Vietnam guilt, just
withdrew from the ball game. The Afghans’
other miscalculation was that they could
sprinkle their essentially nationalist prog-
ram with Marxist slogans without confusing
anyone. Like the American embassy, the

‘Russians have got stuck in Afghanis tan’

A great miscalculation

population, familiar with Soviet prop-
aganda, assumed that file Kabul govern-
ment must be either pro-Soviet or under
Soviet domination. This was the signal tfiyt
started the countrywide revolt, the succeS.
at which prompted the Soviets to invade*

The event that began the Afghan
tragicomedy was perhaps the revolution of
1973 in which King Muhammad Zahir was
overthrown. Revolutions in Afghanistan do
not follow the precise pattern laid down
elsewhere. Although the king was exiled
and a republic declared, the man who over-
threw him was Muhammad Daoud, his first
cousin and brother-in-law. Daoud assumed
the more fashionable title of president, but
he too failed to carry through the liberaliza-
tion over which the king had dawdled.

The leftist opposition united to oppose.
Daoud. Previously the Parcham (or “ban-
ner'’) group under Babrak Karma! had split
away from the parent Kbalq (or “masses”):
party founded in 1965 by Nur Muhammad :
Taraki. Although Parcham was considered 1
pro-Moscow, Kannal’ s father was a general
in the army, and be had close ties with the
Daoud establishment; so dose in fact that
Parcham was known in Kabul as* the Royal
Afghan Communist Party.” Daoud* s delays
in democratizing the government threw
Parcham back into alliance with Khalq in
1977.

The coup of April 1978 that brought the
Khalq to power was not, in Dupree’s opin-
ion, masterminded by the Soviet Union. It
was more in the nature of the accidents that
occur in Neil Simon plays. Alarmed by a
public demonstration, the Daoud govern-
ment decided to arrest the leftist leaders,
including Taraki and H afiz uJlah Amin, the
Kbalq party’s second in command. Amin, a
graduate of the Columbia University
Teachers College, had been radicalized
while attending studywork camps at the
University of Wisconsin. Daoud* s police
raided Amin's home but made the mistake
of leaving him under house-arrest, with hjs
teenage children free to come and go. In the
space of 10 hours, using his children as'
couriers, Amin managed to patch togelher a
makeshift coup with his supporters in the
military. The police came to arrest him 15

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FIGHTERS ATOP MOUNTAINS: Afghan freedom filters keeping vigil in the moun-
tains of Kiraar Province area near the border with Pakistan as they continue to resist the
Soviet miStary intervention in their country.

minutes after he had sent the final order for-
die coup to begin.

What followed was a two-day fire fight in
the streets of Kabul in which chance and
accident ruled supreme over design. Only
some 3,000 of the Afghan army’s 92,000
troops played an active part on either side.
Most chose to sit on the fence. The night
before the coup, Daoud* s defense minister,
Ghulam Haider Rasuli, had told comman-
ders to have their troops dance to celebrate
the arrest of the opposition. When Rasuli
called for the troops* support the following
day, he was told they were still dancing. In
the center of Kabul die taxis honked for die
tanks to pull over, and wove in and out as

the fighting continued. The traffic police
found the tanks would not obey their sign-
als, so sat on the curbs to watch the action ,
Rasuli was injured when his driver ran a red
light and collided with a taxi. Fortune did
not favor his cause . At the end of the day, h e
was found biding in a chicken coop and
shot. Daoud and 50 members of his family
were machine gunned in the 'Presidential
Palace.

The accidental coup succeeded. But the
Taraki- A min government enjoyed few suc-
cesses thereafter . In their attempt to reform
society, says Dupree, “they violated practi-
cally every .Afghan ailutral norm ... It
almost appears that they systematically

planned to alienate i ivery segment of the
Afghan people.” A d ecree abolishing usury
threw the rural credi t system into havoc. A
premature land refer on scheme added to the
confusion. The revo lu don’s base of support,
such as it was, grew increasingly slender. At
the same time th e revolution started to
devour itself from within by a scries of san-
guinary purges.

Babrak Karma | and the other Parcham
leaders, who wer e merely exiled as ambas-
sadors, got off lightly. Amin, as prime
minister, procee ded to imprison or liquid-
ate not on ly Par cham supporters but mem-
bers of Khalq * who seemed more loyal to
President Tara ki than to himself. Seeing
Amin as a n inc reusing liability, the Russians
conspired with . Taraki, the “Great Leader"
of Khalq ] stop Uganda, to remove the Loyal
Student," his overbearing prime minister.
Butduringar lotbcraccident-riddencoupin
high Afgjhan style, a shoot-out that took
place on Se pt. 14, 1979. it was the great
leader wl to got shot, and the loyal student
stepped i nti j his shoes us president.

Amin's regime continued to throttle

itself. In Dupree’s view, the Russians'

“sensible I jrst opinion” would have been
simply to « ; top giving Amin military support.
Whatever Afghan group overthrew him
would still | have found it necessary to reach
accommo dation with the Soviet Union.
Invasion i presented a multitude of risks with
almost r to extra gains. Russian Islamic
specials Its, Dupree believes, advised
against i ntervention.

Nevei .theless, in a classically botched
demard ne, Soviet forces invaded Afghanis-
tan on Dec. 27. 1979. managing to kill
the man who supposedly requested
ielp. But Babrak Karma l, the Par-
leader installed by Moscow, was no
able than Amin to strengthen the
gover nment’s support among the people. In
one p redpitate act, the Russians found they
had b ought themselves an unwinnable war,
alien ated third world opinion, and created
the s eeds of future dissension with the cen-
tral Asian peoples they rule.

fhey are using gunships to reduce whole
vail eys to nibble. Soviet tactics have two •
obj ectives: the rubblizaiion of Afghanistan

Amin,
their b
cham
better

Misconduct alleged

and migratory genocide ” says Dupree. The
number of refugees in Pakistan, less than
500,000 at the time of the Soviet invasion,
has now reached more than 1.5 million
people, an extraordinary 10 per cent of the
total population, and in January 1981 the
monthly exodus reached 143 .000, the high-
est on record. Another 300,000 to 400,000
Afghans are refugees in Iran.

It was a year before the Russian interven-
tion that Dupree finally left Afghanistan.
Told in August 1978 that his resident's visa
would not be renewed, he approached
Taraki and Amin, both of whom he had
known personally in the 1960‘s. They
refused to see him, and he and his wife
Nancy left for Pakistan. But Dupree had not
been forbidden to return. A few weeks later
he received a visa and drove back to Kabul
to test the waters. For a few days everything
seemed normal. The day after Thanksgiv-
ing, while his wife was out shopping, he was
■arrested and taken to jail. Six days of inter-
rogation followed.

Though not physically abused himself, he
was made to watch others in the Kabul jail
undergoing intimidation and torture. He
was accused of working for the CIA and was
urged to name all his associates in Afganis-
tan. When this didn't work, his inter-
rogators confronted him with a former
Afghan colleague, badly tortured, who
denounced him as a CIA agent. Dupree
denied all charges and named no names.
After six days he was released, the reason
for his arrest remaining as obscure as the
ever, and he and Nancy were escorted back
to the border. They were fortunate to
escape. Probably 8,000 people were
executed during die period of the Taraki-
Amin purges.

Soviet tactics, Dupree believes, a re unify-
ing the different peoples of Afghanistan in a
way that no previous government has been
able to do. With their villages destroyed,
Afghans are settling their families in Pakis-
tan and returning" to fight the invader.
Without the usual ties to place, the fighters
are free to join larger, multi-ethnic units.
Dupree hopes that local units, in the man-
ner of the Yugoslav partisans, will ulti-
mately combine into a national liberation
movement: “Such a movement, given the
necessary weapons, could force the Rus-
sians. who already know they can't conquer
Afghanistan, only destroy it, to settle the
matter peacefully at the negotiating table.”

Libyan diplomats inU.S.
old to leave in five days

WASHINGTON, May 7 (R) — Hie
United States, accusing Libya of misconduct,
provocations and support of international
terrorism, has ordered all its diplomats to
leave the country.

The order fell short of a break in diploma-
* tic relations but State Department spokes-
- man Dean Fischer said U-S. -Libyan relations
were now at their lowest possible level.
Washington has not had any representatives
in Tripoli since last May. The U.S. embassy
there were overrun and burned in December
979 by demonstrators supporting the Ira-
takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran.
AH Ahmad Houderi, head of people’s
ureau as Libya calls its embassies, was sum-
noned to the State Department Wednesday
nd told he had five working days to close the
lission and remove its 25 diplomats from the
ountry. He said he was surprised and
hocked by the news. U.S. officials said ties
etween the two governments had been
trained by what they described as Libya's
lilitary adventurism in Africa and support
ar terrorist activities.

: “Both President Reagan and Secretary of
tale Alexander Haig have made known
ieir very real concern about a wide range of
ibya's provocations and misconduct and
Jpport for international terrori-sm,” Fischer
lid. The Reagan administration has made
pposition to terrorism a major issue and

Reagan, in a recent interview named Libyan '
leader Muammhr Qaddafi in discussing coun-
tries which he said were trying to export ter-
rorism. I

Fischer said the government would allow
Libya to be represented in lyashington by a
special interests section in the embassy of. a.
mutually acceptable third tbutitry. TL$. offi-
cials, concerned about how Col. Qaddafi
might react to the expulsion order, warned
U.S. citizens not to travel to Libya where
about 2.000 Americans now live.

Fischer said die administration did not
expect the expulsion to disrupt Libyan oil
shipments to the United States, although
Qaddafi has threatened in the past of cutting
off supplies. “We don’t see any reason why
this action should affect the oil supply rela-
tionship,” be said.

Libya is the third largest supplier erf oil to
United States, after Saudi Arabia and
Nigeria. The exports are worth about $12
billion a year to Libya.

In Moscow, the news media charged
Thursday that the United States, in announc-
ing the expulsion erf Libyan diplomats from
Washington . failed to make public any proof
erf Libyan involvement in terrorist activities.
Moscow Radio said the department limited
its explanation of the move to “vague allega-
tions that Libyan diplomats were involved in
terrorism.”

Qaddafi said
backing rival
of Goukouni

Disease, starvation threaten Somalia

On jailed Briton

[ran promises early verdict

TEHRAN, May 7 (Agencies) — ' Iran has
remised an early decision by judicial
uthoritieson die case of British businessman
.□drew Pyke, held in a Tehran jail for the
ast eight months, Iranian newspapers
rported Wednesday.

They said the assurance was given to Swed-
h Ambassador Goran Bundy by Iran s
■eputy Prime Minister for Political Affairs,
/uhammad Hashemi, during a meeting
0,4 uesday. Sweden has been looking after Bn-
in's affairs in Iran since the closure of the
ritish Embassy last September.

■ Pyke, who worked for a Dutch- Iranian
>mpany called Helicopter Aviation Ser-
ces, was arrested at Tehran airport August
3 last as he was trying to leave the country,
irst Iranian reports said be was arrested on
ispicion of espionage and financial
regularities, but the espionage charges were
ter dropped, British diplomats said last
onth. . .

Other marges related to the financial
fairs of the company would be pressed, they
iid.

Meanwhile, a Frankfurr court Wednesday
opped proceedings againt 10 Iranian stu-
nts accused of threatening five compatriots
aom they accused of working for the former
lah’s secret police. The court and pub c
‘osecutor said in a joint statement that the
rused had not committed a serious offense
id a continuation of the trial would not be in
e public interest. .

In another development, a repfesentati e
Iran’s prosecutor general Wednesday
ked a revolutionary Islamic court to pass a
st verdictonformer Deputy Pnme Minister
bbas Amir Entezam. who is standing tnai
r collaborating with the United Mates.

dibi meets Genscher

BONN, May 7 (AP) — C3iedH Klto’
ary general of the Arab League, met with
•reign Minister Hans- Dietrich Genscher
mrsday, officials here said. hJibi, who
rived in the West German capital Wednes-
y, is expected to discuss the situation in the
iddle East and other international issues
ring the two-day visit.

Prosecutor's representative, named only as
Mir-Mehdi, rejected Entezam’s repeated
claims that his documents provided as evi-
dence against him had been forged to dis-
credit the Iranian revolution. According to
documents read during the proceedings,
Entezam held unauthorized contacts with
U.S. embassy officials and members of the
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in
Tehran.

Mir-Mehdi said the Americans compiled
their documents with great care, as this was in
their own interest. “Therefore, they would n ot
have written false information,” he said. .

In Washington, a member of the U.S.-
Iranian Claims Tribunal whose appointment
was opposed by Iran has stepped down, the
White House said Wednesday.

Judge Malcolm WiIkeyoftheU.S. Court of
Appeals in the district of Columbia told
President Reagan Saturday that the caseload
of his courts was too heavy to permit him to
serve, it said. He has been replaced by
George Aldrich, a U.S. representative cm the
United Nations International Law Commis-
sion and a former negotiator at the Law of file
Sea Conference.

CAIRO, May 7 (AP) — Libya's with-
drawal erf military support from Chadian
President Goukouni Queddei to set up a
former Goukouni ally as his new rival has led
to 10 days of fighting in a strategic Chadian
city, reports from the area have said.

Libya’ intervened lasr December' on i
Goukounf s side in a Chadian civil war and
defeated GoukounTs enemy rebel Defense
Minister Hissane Habre. An unspecified
number of Soviet, East German and Cuban
military advisers are reportedly in Chad
besides 12,000 Libyan troops. Goukouni
loyalists have been “provoked" by a growing
Libyan and Soviet presence and are urging
withdrawal of those forces, according to dip-
lomatic sources in Sudan readied by tele-
phone from Cairo.

Libyan leader Col. Muammar Qaddafi,
who recently returned from a trip to Moscow,
has now put “his full weight” behind 35-
year-old Ah mat Acyl, who had been
Goukouni* s foreign minister but is “totally
loyal to Qaddafi,” one source said.

Acyl, 35, a former foreign minis ter is of
nomad origin from file central Chadian dty of
Ati where Arab influence is predominant.
Chadian sources dose to him say be is also a
staunch supporter of Qaddafi* s pan-Islamic
legion designed to expand Libyan influence
in Niger, Nigeria, Central Africa and Sudan.

Well informed travelers coming from Chad
to Cairo, say Qaddafi is trying to install Acyl
in Goukounf s place when the Chadian presi-
dent’s 18-month transitional mandate
expires May 10 under the Lagos reconcilia-
tion agreement signed by rival Chadian fac-
tions in Nigeria in November 1979.

Meanwhile, Goukouni is due in northern
Cameroon Thursday for talks with
Cameroon President Ah mad ou Ahidjo, the
government announced Wednesday.

BELET UEN, Somalia, May 7 (AP)
Disease and starvation threatened this pro -
vintial capital Wednesday as flooding by tw> d
of Somalia's main rivers brought chaos to
four of the impoverished east Africa n
nation’ s six regions after unusual ly heavy sei i-
sonal rains.

Small fish swam along the flooded ma in
street here around the legs of a slow-moving
stream of people carrying household beloo g-
ings on their backs as flood water often m< >re
than six feet deep encircled the town. Be let
Uen, on the bank of the Shebeili River, so; .ne

32 kins from the border with Ethiopia, can
nr iw be reached only by boat. Authorities say
tb e 13.300 residents who ignored a govern-
or ient order last week to evacuate the town
v /hen the one bridge leading out of it was still
F passable have enough food to last for only the
i iext few days.

They say that fresb water is unavailable,
that mosquitoes are beginning to proliferate
and that increasing numbers of children are
falling ill with high fevers.

The few doctors left in the town say they
fear outbreaks of malaria and, far worse.

diolera and typhoid, could strike any time.

The residents who decided to remain live in
the higher and drier areas of the town. On
higher ground beside the main street old men
sat drinking tea as women laid matresses and
sheets on the ground to dry.

“ What can 1 do? Everything I own is here
and there’s no way I can get our.” said the
owner of a small shop as he cast a wary eye on
the rain clouds above. 44 If I leave, I lose every-
thing, so I'll just have to wait to see what
happens."

Russia offers nuclear
power unit to Pakistan

BRIEFS

TEHRAN, (AFP) — Iranian security
forces have seized 912 kilos of opinm in two
record hauls only a week apart. Radio Tehran
reported Wednesday. The radio said that
both shipments were concealed in tanker
trucks.

NORFOLK, (AP) — Hie U.S. aircraft car-
rier America steamed through the Suez Canal
en route to the Indian Ocean Wednesday, the
First American carrier in 14 years to sail
through the 100- mile passage, the navy
announced.

PEKING, (AP) — Chinese Vice Premier Ji
Pengfei told Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister
Taha Yassin Ramadhan Wednesday that
Hiina hopes for a peaceful settlement of the
Iraq-Iron conflict soon to help thwart
44 hege monism.” “Hegemonism" is China's
word for alleged Soviet expansion and
aggression.

KARACHI, May 7 (AP) — Soviet
Ambassador to Pakistan Vitaly S. Smirov was
quoted assaying in an interview that his coun-
try was ready to supply nuclear power plants
to Pakistan. The Pakistan Press International
(PPI) News Agency quoted Smirov as saying
that file Soviet Union could provide effective
assistance to Pakistan not only in the field of
and ear power, but also for thermal power
plants and other means to enable Pakistan to
overcome its energy crisis.

Smirov said that details about such pro-
jects, like the nudear power plants, could be
settled between the two sides and added that
“unlike some countries, the Soviet Union
would always abide by its agreements and
would not go back on its commitments.*’

The ambassador also offered assistance to
set up a second thermal power plant in Sind
and provide technical and other assistance.
Prior to the interview, Smirov had insisted
that the Pakistani reporter not broach the
subject of the Soviet entry into Afghanistan.

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BELFAST, May 7 (AP) — The Irish
Republican Army has been fighting for
more than a decade to reunify partitioned
Ireland, but the focus of that campaign has
blurred after 11 Vi years of bloodshed.

The mostly Roman Catholic movement is
split between at least three feuding factions,
leaving it without cohesive direction or
sense of purpose beyond driving the ” Brits'
out of Northern Ireland.

The death Tuesdayof IRA hunger striker
Bobby Sands sifter a 66-dav fast in Northern
Ireland's Maze prison has united Catholics
in the province more than they have been
for years, in an outpouring of anti-British
hostility. But few republicans know what
comes next.

British army intelligence believes the
IRA’S ‘‘Provisional" wing can fight on for
years. But there is no clear evidence that the
" Proves" are any closer to achieving their
objective of reuniting Northern Ireland —
now dominated by Protestants — with the
overwhelmingly Cathoric Irish Republic.

"There is a lack of political agreement
and coherence within the struggle itself.”
said Bernadette Devlin McAliskey. the
former civil rights campaigner who has
become a theonst for radical Republicans
who see beyond the guns and the bombs.
Yet. she noted, "there has never been more
unity" in the militant opposition to the Brit-
ish government. Hunger strikes by Sands
and three other jailed guerrillas have
broucht a truce in the squabbling between
the IRA’s Provisionals. Marxist official

Sands’ death unifies feuding IRA factions

. -w- g g% g* . • g _r ns.H their last resoects to the

Lack of direction makes
one Ireland still a dream

wing and the revolui b'onary Irish National
Liberation Army. Bu t it has not advanced
the cause of reunifies, ition or the ultimate
objective of toppling die political establ-
ishment in the republit »

Republican News, the* Provisionals'
weekly newspaper, said 1 last week that the
Dublin Government o f Prime, Minister
Charles Haughey reprt ’-sented :j ‘‘ruling
class which has more in common with the
British ruling class than w 'idi its tywn work-
ing class.”

It declared: “We are de termimsd to sec-
ure conditions in which all i he pep pie of the
country will unite in a ... det nocrat ic. social-
ist republic. Nothing les. s will 1 suffice.
Nothing else will be accepts* J- Northing else
can make up for the deaths a nd su ffering of
our people.”

Sands starved himself to c leath after 66
days, demanding the British ti eatc -onvicted
guerrillas as political prisoner s rat her than
criminals. Sands, a Provo, was jaili ;d for 14
years in 1977 for illegal post ’ess ion of a
handgun.

The Proves’ carefully or chest rat ed prop-
aganda campaign over Britain's ^Penal-
ization” policy has been one of th ie.tr biggest
successes for years and rekindlt xl support
for the guerillas,

A Catholic standing in the ra in outside
Sands’ Family home in Belfast as thousands

FOR BATTLE: A hooded youngster knocks down a wall with a sledgehammer to gather
bricks for burling at security forces, as another gathers barbed wire for a barricade, in
Belfast Tuesday following the death of IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands in the Maze
prison.

of mourners paid their last respects to the
dead gunman declared: "To commit a crime
is for personal gain. Bobby never did any-
thing for gain. He was an Irishman. I don’t
see how you can put it down as a crime.

The Nationalist Provisionals have pinned
down 30,000 British troops and police for
more than a decade. Diid O'Connell, the
guerrillas’ former chief of staff and now vice
president of their political front, Sinn Fein,
said during the weekend that the Provos
have the weapons, men and money to wage
their “war of liberation" for years.

Recent British army intelligence esti-
mates said the guerrillas can fight on for at
least five vears without mass support from
Ulster’s half- million Catholics. British
sources said the guerrillas are believed to be

short of explosives but have plenty of
weapons.

Army intelligence estimates the Provos
have no more than 400 hardcore members,
supported by several thousand sympathiz-
ers who provide safe houses, transport and
other facilities.

Although support ebbs and flows,
depending on how threatened Catholics
believe themselves to be, tens of thousands
have taken to the streets to support the
hunger strikers. On April 9, 30,000 voters
elected Sands as member of the British Par-
liament for Fermanagh and South Tyrone

district. That was widely seen as a vote for
the IRA but Northern Ireland traditionally
votes along sectarian lines and Sands was
the only Catholic candidate.

The Provos daim to be the modern-day
standard bearers of generations of Irish
rebels who have fought to drive the British
from the emeraldisle.

They trace their roots back lo Theobald
Wofe tone, leader of an ill-fated rebellion
in 1798 to establish an independent
republic. In 1916 there was Easter rising in
Dublin. The rising was crushed, but it led to
B ritain conceding establishment of tile Irish
Free State — now the Republic — in 1922.
while partitioning off the Protestant-
majority north.

The IRA fought the British in 1919-21 to
win home rule, but then fought a civil war
against former comrades ready to accept
free state status and partition that fell short

of the movement's demand for a full v inde-
pendent republic.

The passions of tbe civil war still divide
Irishmen. The IRA is outlawed on both
sides of the 1922-set border. But while most
southerners do not support the IRA's bomb
and bullet reunification campaign, they bit-
terly resent what they see as an artificially
created stare in the north, carved out by the
British as a homeland for Protestants whose
ancestors were encouraged to migrate
there.

The guerrillas still retain considerable
sympathy because of their fight for the
cherished Irish dream of becoming a unified
nation once again.

Arme d struggle justified

Indira , Thatcher disagreed
Missing American wailks into embassy in Salvador on ma ny issues, minister says

SAN SALVADOR, May 7 (AP) — An
American priest, who was missing and feared
dead for 10 days, walked into the U.S.
Embassy here Wednesday, an embassy
spokesman said. Tbe priest criticized U.S.
support for El Salvador's "repressive dic-
tatorship at war with its own people."

Roy Bourgeois, a 42-year-old priest based
in Chicago. Illinois, vanished April 26 after
he left the Camino Real Hotel, reportedly to
buy some medicine. Embassy spokesman
Howard Lane said he entered the embassy at
about 4 :45 p.m. and appeared in good health.

"After much reflection and prayer I have
decided to jv>in the poor of El Salvador in
their struggle for justice and peace,"
Bourgeois said in a letter delivered to the
Associated Press office at about the time he
entered the embassy." While I recognize that

die armed struggle of the Satvadora n people
is justified, I personally cannot and will not
bear arms.”

The letter also said: “It hprts met leeplyto
know that my country, die United S tates, is
supplying military advisers rind arms boa rep-
ressive dictatorship at war with its ov m peo-
ple.” Although Bourgeois could t tot be
reached for comment, a reliable Am lerican
source confirmed that the priest w: is the
author of the letter.

The civil war in El Salvador invt living
popular forces trying to overthrow ‘ the
civilian-military junta, and rightist elen tents
opposed to reform, has taken an estim iated
22,000 lives in the past 1 Vi years.

At one point, a body believed to be
Bourgeois was found in a ravine near the
capital but that was proven untrue by fing ;er-

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the state. The work stoppage, which created
what the Kenya news agency described as a
"serious" situation in the hospital, was in line
with a national strike derided Wednesday
night by representatives of doctors through-
out the’ country.

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prints flown in from the United States.

: Lane told the Associated Press: "He went
off on his own free will into the ( countryside)
and came back the same way “ He said the
priest will make no statements until he
returns to the United States. Lane said
Bourgeois would leave soon on a flight home,
but would not say when, and that the priest
was under American a protection until he
tould leave.

) Shortly after his disappearance, Salvadoran
(President Jose Napoleon Duarte reportedly
said that Bourgeois might have secretly
jjoined the forces battling his U.S. backed

civilian-military junta. Duarte later denied
making the statement.

In the last year, Bourgeois ‘ traveled
throughout the United States' midwest
crusading against repression in El Salvador.
He wanted others to know “what kind of
government our money is supporting down
there,” said Denise Plunkett, a friend of the
priest.

He also led a four-day fast last November
at a Chicago cathedral to protest U.S.
involvement in El Salvador. Two nuns were
among four American women missionaries
slain in El Salvador last December.

which nearly 40,000 persons were listening to
a religious discourse cuaght fire near Nastt : in
western India, the Press Trust of India ne\ vs .
agency reported Wednesday.

LONDON, ( R) — Self-made British te> :-
tile millionaire Lord Kagan, jailed las -t ‘
December as a swindler, was Wednesday r
stripped of the knighthood awarded to him b) •
Queen Elizabeth in 1970. Lord Kagan, who •
came to Britain as a penniless refugee from
Lithuania in 1946, was sentenced to 10
months' imprisonment last December on
charges of theft and false accounting involv-
ing his own company. He was knighted on tbe
recommendation of his friend Sir Harold
Wilson when the latter was prime minister.

Ripper story payments

Queen attacks U.K. papers

LONDON, May 7 ( AP) — A letter from
Queen Elizabeth II made public Wednesday
t^itidzed the frantic race by British newspap-
ers to outbid each other for rights to first-
person accounts of the private life of the
defendant in the “Yorkshire Ripper” case.

Some of London's splashier tabloids and
d allies already have signed up friends and
relatives of 34-year-old Peter Sutcliffe, on
tr ial for the murders of 13 Yorkshire-area
w omen over a five-year period.

In Februaiy. the mother of the Ripper's
la: ft victim, Jacqueline Hill, wrote the queen
co mplaining that the defendant's family was
profiting from his admitted misdeeds. "If s
wrong, that anyone connected with the killer
of imy daughter should profit from it finan-
cial ly .’’Doreen Hill told reporters. “There are
25 « ±ildren left without mothers because of
the Ripper killings, and if there's any money
|goin g around it should go to them."

In a reply, the queen's deputy private sec-
retaiy, William Heseltine, assured her the
quee*n shared her “sense of distaste” over
repo: rts London's Doily Mail and other British
news papers planned to run articles based on
inten dews obtained for“a substantial sum of
mone y .”

"A (though there is nothing illegal in what
isproj )osed and therefore there is no way Her
Majes ty could properly intervene, she cer-
t ainly shares in the sense of distaste which
r ight-n ninded people will undoubtedly feel,”
tl 'ie let ter read.

Seve ral bills to outlaw stories for pay are
p^ :ndin| g before the House of Commons,
wl iich j s wrestling over how such measures
wt raid a ffect freedom of the press. According
lo Mrs. HilFs lawyer, Anelay Hart, The Daily
Ma it has ; acknowledged it put up members of
the Sutc liffe family at a Yorkshire hotel and
paid Sut cliffe’s father a sum “under 10,000
pou nds” l $22, 000).

Bi it tht : newspaper issued a stinging denial
of re port: f it had offered money to Sutcliffe's

wife, Sonia, and vowed to publish “a com-
plete account of its investigations into the
Sutdiffe case and into the campaign of vilifi-
cation against The Daily Mail.

There have been reports of other news-
papers offering up to $300,000 to Mrs. Sutc-
liffe and of reporters walking into
Yorkshire-area bars and offering 10 pounds
($22) a head for each name of a Sutdiffe
acquaintance any of the patrons could pro-
vide.

Offers of money for Mrs. Hill's exdusive
story were pushed under her door and slipped
into her mail box soon after her daughter’s
death. “I regarded them as blood money,'
she told The Sunday Times. “I threw them on
tbe fire

The queen's letter to Mrs. Hill, which was
released by her attorney, made no mention of
the royal family’s own, most recent experi-
ence with the mercenary side of the fourth
estate.

Mrs. Hill also wrote to Prime Minister]
Margaret Thatcher about the financial race
for the Ripper story. Home Secretary Wil-
liam Wbitelaw, replying to another of Mrs.
Hills letters, said it was "totally abhorrent”
that anyone should benefit from such sensa-
tional accounts and that the government had
contacted other governments “to discover
whether any other countries have been able
to deal with this problem by legislation.” k

The British Press Council, an industry
watchdog with no powers of enforcement
issued a statement Wednesday saying it waj>
investigating the checkbook journalist^
reports and that it “deplores the publicatior
of personal articles of an unsavory nature b
persons who have been concerned with cri
inal acts or vicious conduct ”

Sutcliffe’s trial, which on Wednesday
given over to detailed descriptions of ho
Jacqueline Hill was killed, has so far pr
vented most of the stories about his privat<
life from hitting the newsstands.

PiOOLSIDE BARBECUE DINNER

NEW DELHI, May 7 (Agencies) — A top
Indian official said Thursday that Prime
Minister Indira Gandhi and her British coun-
terpart, Margaret Thatcher, disagreed on
many international issues during the British
leader’s visit here last month.

The Middle East problem was the only
foreign policy issue on which they agreed dur-
ing Mrs. Thatcher’s April 15-19 visit. Exter-
nal Affairs Minister P.V.N. Rao told Parlia-
ment here. Asked by a Communist legislator
to be more specific, Rao said that Mrs.
Thatcher’s views “differed generally" with
Indian policy.

India explained its position and “we were
able to understand their point of view,” the
Indian leader added. Mrs. Gandhi also expre-
ssed concern to Mrs. Thatcher about the
proposed nationality legislation which seeks
to create three classes of British citizenship.
The British leader claimed (hat the bill woidd
not discriminate against any citizen on the
basis of race or color.

Rao (fid not list the issues of disagreement
but they were understood to be Afghanistan,
U.S. arms to Pakistan and the militarization
of die Indian Ocean.

It was the first official statement by Rao on
the results of the talks between Mrs. Thatcher
arid Mrs. Gandhi. Rao said Mrs. Thatcher
had “stuck to her position and we had to put
forward our point of view.”

On Palestine, he reported “considerable
similarity" in die approach of India and Bri-
tain on the problem. They might not be iden-
tical but her views were "different from the
approach of the United States “and to that
extent India found them “more in line with
ours,” he added.

Rao also told Parliament that the govern-
ment would take “stringent action” against
the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
if it had not kept to an agreement reached
before filming the life of tribals in Bastar,
central India, recently. The film was still
being processed in London.

The minister said the BBC had agreed to
show the film to the Indian authorities and if
there was objection to any part of it that
portion would be removed. Rao turned down
suggestions that an inquiry committee be set
up to investigate the filming of tbe Bastar
tribals and that permission should be denied
to all foreign organizations for shooting films
in India.

In an unrelated development, the high
court in the troubled northeastern state of
Assam declared void a 21 -year-old censor-

ship law Wednesday and quashed govern-
ment notifications imposing stringent press
controls.

A two- member bench in Gauhati, .Assam's
main city, ruled that a section of the Assam
Sep da I Powers (press) Act empowering the
state government to subject publications to
censorship was a violation of the fundamental
rights guaranteed by the Indian constitution,
the Unted News-of India reported.

The state government imposed censorship
on three newspapers and two magazines last
Dec. 23 to force them to withhold news of a
popular student-led movement against
immigrants from neighboring Bangladesh.

Couple rowing
across Atlantic

NEW YORK, May 7 (AP) - A Provi-
dence, Rhode Island, . couple trying to row
across the Atlantic Ocean from Africa to
Florida are now more than 800 fcms south-
west of the Canary Islands, according to the
sister of one of tile rowers. “There's no place
left to stop,” said Lynn Saville, of New York.

Her brother, Kutt : Saville. 34. and his wifi
Kathleen, 24, set off last month from Casab
lanca in a 25-foot boat in a 6437 kms, 100
day journey across the ocean.

Miss Saville said the couple had to put it
several times at islands off the African coas:
to repair storm damage and corrosion to tht
craft’s solar panels. Strong off-shore cunems
repeatedly blew their craft back toward
Morocco, said Miss Saville who has been in
contact with the pair through ham radic
operators.

Tbe expedition is endorsed and sponsorei
by the Explorers Club of New York, if i
succeeds, Mrs. Saville will become the fin
woman to row across the Atlantic.

Soweto mayor unhurt

JOHANNESBURG, May 7 (AP) -
David Thebehati, mayor of the blade town
ship of Soweto just outside Johannesburg
survived an attempt on his life Wednesda
evening, police headquarters in Pretoria sail
Thursday.

A police statement said an explosb'
device, presumably a hand grenade placei
under the black mayor's car, exploded a
about 6:25 p.m. Wednesday as he drove a wa
from the Soweto Council offices. Thebeha
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I am here to participate ,
not take over , Karoly says

WASHINGTON, May 7 ( WP) — Bela
roly, the Romanian gymnastics trainer
o coached Nadia Comaneci to three gold
dais at the 1976 Olympics, says that
•.died States “has the potential for great
tievements in gymnastics."

■ ‘There is a huge human potential in

■ nerica,and there has been great progress
ce 1976,” said Karoly, 3S.

* He defected to the United States with his
. : e, Marta, 38. and head gymnastic
geographer Geza Poszer, 31 , at the con-
■sion of a four- week American tour by
.•Romanian National Women’s Gymnas-
s team.

The three say they hope to continue their
:eers by becoming involved in American
mhastics. “I am not here to take over
mhastics in America,” said Karoly. “But
/ould like to take part and help in any way
an."

* Other than participating in some way in
mnastics, their plans are idefinite. They

- .d - they would like to begin working as
. on as possible. Karoly initially expressed
me concern at finding adequate facilities
d enough money to coach full-time, but
a week he received coaching offers from
ree American gymnastics clubs.

- -‘Selection is the most important ingre-
snt in gymnastic success,” said karoly,
io in Romania began the process of set ect-
* internationally competitive gymnasts of
; future while they were still in kindergar-

{Jii. He said he knows participation in
'nerican gymnastics is on a voluntary
sis, but that it is nevertheless important
{ft- coaches to recruit talented gymnasts at
early age.

“The coach must reach out and get to the
children,” he said. How does a coach like
Karoly, from a small! provincial town in
Romania, consistently produce world-class
gymnasts?

“We have our secrets, bur they become
obvious once you get started m the system ”
Karoly said, “it is all an integration of
organization, tactics and techniques."

Although widely reputed to be a stem
disciplinarian, Karoly took issue with that
image. He does not impose rigid curfews, he
said, but he does like his gymnasts to get to
bed a reasonable hour.

Gymnasts should train no more than five
hours a day, he said, but they should train
every day, building their level of perfor-
mance through methodical, consistent prac-
tice. There is, however, a difference in the
level of in tensity in training when a gymnast
is preparing for an meet and when one is
training just to keep in condition.

“A gymnast must be capable of quick,
explosive burst of energy. She must be pre-
pared to give her peak performance in sud-
den burst of energy,” Karoly said.

The mission of a gymnastics coach,
Karoly said, must be two-fold. “He must
separately develop the gymnasts and pre-
pare them to be stars, and he must prepare

.the team as a team. Morale is terribly
. important.”

. . It is, however, generally agreed that
without access to substantial funds, the
.* three would find it impossible to establish
tbeir own gymnastics program in the United
States.

: Costs of equipping a facility were esti-
mated at $200,000. and that does not
-include the monthly rent, salaries or other
frosts of operation. In California, Don Pet-
■ "ers head coach of the southern California
iTeam, says his annual budget is $500,000.
He figures it costs $1 0,000 a year for each of
Jiis 30 competitive gymnasts when coaches’
salaries ($18,000 -$20,000) and travel costs
are included.

>} “ We run gymnastics classes for 800 kids
for the luxury of being able to compete with
30," said Peters, who also does a limited
amount of fund raising.

' “They have an ideal kind of setup in
Romania. The kids live in the gymnastics
fchooL They get up in the morning and do
Some exercises. Then they go to class with
grerial tutors, and then they have more
gymnastics. Amateur sports is a national
priority over there. I’ve known other
Romanian coaches who have defected.
They find out about amateur sports in the
touted States and it leaves them almost

(Wirepfeoto)

ALLSET: Tottenham Hotspurs, who a re all set to take on Manchester City in tfie FA. Cap final Saturday, make a happy picture after a
hard day's training. Left to right: Steve Perryman (cap!.), Don McAJ lister, Mtiric Falcp, Chris Hugh ton, Qsvaldo Ardiles, MUija Aleksic,
Garry Brooke, Glenn Hoddle, Garth Crooks, Steve Archibald, Tony Galvin and Ricardo Villa.

7 .A. Cup final -keen tussle in offing

-ONDON, May 7 (R) — Resurgent Man-
ner City will complete a remarkable
. nsformation if they win the English Fool-
I Association (F.A.) Cup by beating Tot-
ham in the final here at Wembley on
unlay.

rity were bottom of the First Divison last
tober without a league win, but the arrival
ohn Bond, who took over as manager from
. r lcolm Allison completely changed their
tunes.

Tie influence of former Norwich boss
id has lifted City to 12th in the 22-team
ision and guided them to a place in the
wpiece game of the season. And there is
ry prospect of a fitting dash for this spe-
o cession — the lOOih F.A. Cup final —
i the ri\ab in free-scoring form.

Sty, who have named the side which beat
rich in the semifinal, hammered 17 goals
conceded only three in the six matches it
t them to reach Wembley. London rivals
renham, who announced a lull strength
Wednesday scored i? with four against
en games

City’s scoring strength was boosted by
27-year-old captain Paul Power, who netted
in all but one of the six ga mes, and the univer-
sity graduate could continue to be the key-
man in a midfield role which altered when
Bond took charge .

Power said: “Although we had been play-
ing some good football John felt we had been
taking too long to rum defense into attack,
because of the methodical build-ups.and that
it was time we took advantage of our ability."

Although Power’s scoring threat is a
bonus. City essentially will look for goals
from strikers Steve <MacKenzi and w. Kevin
Reeves, who have the potential to sink Tot-
tenham. MacKenzie. 19. has justified former
boss Allison's gamble in buying him from
Crystal Palace two years ago when the player
had not made a League appearance. Reeves
has shrugged off an indifferent start with City
to become their top scorer this season with 15
goals.

City's challenge will be answered by a Tot-
tenham aide, who boast a talented midfield
trio to support a formidable . strike force

spearheaded by Garth Crooks and Steve
Archibald.

Glenn Hoddle has the habit of hitting some
spectacular goals to supplement his immense
creative ability, while Argentine duo Osvaldo
Ardiles and Ricardo Villa complete an
impressive midfield line. t

The £1.5 million partnership of Crooks
and Scottish international Archibald paid off
handsomely with a total of 46 goals between
them in all games and six of 15 in the Cup.

Tottenham's only selection problem was in
the choice of center-half, and Paul Miller was
picked ahead of Don McAllister largely
because “Miller has done a good job in the
big matches,” said manager Keith Burkin-
shaw.

ibak drops set to Amritraj

W YORK, May 7 ( AP) — Fifth-seeded Woj-
ibak ol‘ Poland dropped the opening set, then
the nett two lo oust Vi jay Antrim) of India

asr makes final

By a Staff Writer

AMMAM, May 7 — Nasr sTormed into
inal of the King's Cup Football Touma-
t beating Ittifaq 2-1 Thursday,
tifaq, who were trailing by a goal con-
id by their goalkeeper, hit back in the
nd session to restore parity and force the
e into the extra time.

I ft i the first half of the extra time .however,

1 5 ' rs Majed Abdullah netted the winner,
r now await the winners of the Hilal-
tad dash lobe olaved in Jeddah on Friday

from the 5592,000 Tournament of Champions at
Forest Hills. The score was 4-6, 6-2, 6-2.

Earlier. 1 1 th-seeded Viaor Peed of Paraguay
upset sixth-seeded Brian Teacher 6-4, 7-5; ninth-
seeded Balazs Taroczy of Hungary stopped Lany
Srefanki 6-3, 6-4; Heinz Gunthardt of Switzerland
defeated Sammy Oiammalva 6-3, 6-2; Mario
Marinez of Bolivia downed Ricardo Cano of
Argentina 6-3, 6-1 and seventh-seeded Johan
Kriek of South Africa eliminated Dominique
Bedel of France 6-1, 7-5.

Amritraj won the opening set, breaking Fibak in
the sixth and 10th games, despite a rash of back-
hand errors. The 27-year-old Amritraj, who upset
Jimmy Connors in this tournament a year ago,
continued to have troubled with his backhand as
Fibak, ranked 28th in the world, romped through
the next set with breaks in the first and fifth games.

BRIEFS

MELBOURNE. Australia, (AP) —
istralia s Barry Michael became the new’
mmonweaith lightweight boxing chanip-
i with a unanimous win on points over
nylon Tinago of Zimbabwe at Festival
il? here A'edncsduy night. Defending
impion Tinago opened a cut over
chad's left eye in the ninth round of the
-round fighi but failed to capitalize on the

van Lise.

.ST ANBUL.( Rl - Greece m.iJeMireot
‘lace in the final qualifying round of the
ropean Basketball Championships by
itimt Belgium 9l»- 7 S here Wednesday,
e Greeks have maximum points from
ir games and will he one of three coun-
ts coins from the Istanbul mini-league of
teaiml'or the weekend play-off in Istan-
1 Those twmC'. will decide which tour
unifies iji* on to the finals in Czechos-

. .tkia later in \1a> . ,

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J i*i •' Kick !i the p -vi-

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trouble at the end of the first day’s play in
the unofficial ‘Test* against Sri Lanka
Thursday. Overnight rain and an hour-long
shower Thursday morning when the covers
were taken off to prepare the wicket
delayed the start of the match.

LONDON. < R) — Norbert Phillip,
perhaps the least celebrated of the army of
vVest Indian fast bowlers playing in English
cricket, gave title-holders Middlesex a
rough ride on the first day of the County
Championship .Vednesday, Phillip, 32,
from Dominica where landslides delayed
his return to England, took four for eight in
50 balls as Essex restricted Middlesex to 55
for five at Lord's where rain restricted play
to two hours.

TAMPERE, Finland, { R) — An interna-
tional jury Thursday rejected an appeal by
Finnish middleweight Tarmo Uusivirta,
against hi«. elimination by Romania’s Val-
entin Sil.'.uhi in the quarterfinals of die
European Amateur Roving Championships
V-. .'•'uV.-ii nieln.

Severiano Ballesteros

Ballesteros
to defy ETPD

ST. GERMAIN- EN-LA YE. France, May
7 (AFP) — Spain’s Severiano Ballesteros
took a strong stand here on the eve of the
French Open in his battle with Golfs Euro-
pean Tournament Players Division (ETPD)
over appearance money and playing where
he wants.

Europe’s most famous golfer, winner of the
1979 British Open and the 1980 U.S. Mas-
ters, said Wednesday that he would not pay
any fines levied on him by the ETPD for
playing in Japan instead of in the first two
ETPD events of 1981. The ETPD meets next
Wednesday to consider fining Ballesteros for
his failure to play in the two tournaments, the
Mudrid and Italian Opens.

Ballesteros went on to say he would not
play in Europe for the next three weeks after
the French Open. His next tournament will
be the Westchester Classic in New York,
beginning June 1 1 . His first and perhaps sole
appearance in Britain would be in the British
jpeu in July.

shellshocked for about a year.”

There are also other differences between
gymnastics in Romania and in the United
States, said Rich Kenney, a spokesman for
the United States, Gymnastics Federation.

“In a place like Romania the coaches and
staff basically recruit the kids out of kinder-
garten. They watch them on the play-
ground, and then they test them, and if
they’re accepted it’s a great honor. In the
United States we have to hope the talent
walks in the door."

“Karoly and Nadia Comaneci (who won
three gold medals and seven scores of 10 in
gymnastics at the Montreal Olympics) were
tbe people who put Romania on the map.
He was the guy at the top. Things had to be
pretty bad for him to defect," said Kenney.

The former youth hammer-toss champion
of Romania, Karolygraduated from the Insti-
tute for Physical Education in Cluj in Trans-
ylvania, where he met his wife, a former gym-
nast.

They reached their decision to defect early
on the morning of March 30 — the last day of
the Romanian tour of America — after an
all-night, soul-searching conversation with
Pozsar. *

They stayed at the house of a friend in the
New York area while the rest of the Roma-
nian team boarded a plane home at Kennedy
Airport. Their decision to defect was
announced to Romanian officials at the state
department. ’

The Karolys left their seven-year-old
daughter behind in Romania , and Pozsar
left a wife and infant daughter. They have
asked that their families be permitted ro join
them in America.

(APjAoCq)

COACH AND THE STAR: Roman bn gymnastics trainer Bela Karoly, who defected to
the United States, poses with Nadia Coraaned, the star of the Montreal Olympics.

In UEFA Cup Final

Ipswich takes commanding lead

JPSWICH, England, May 7 (AP) — Ips-
wich town of England crushed A z 67 Alk-
maar of Holland 3-0 in their UEFA Cup
final, first-leg soccer match atPortman Road
Wednesday night.

Ipswich led 1-0 at half time through John
Work's 28th minute penalty. Frans Thijssen
scored the second goal just 48 seconds after
the interval and Paul Mariner netted the third
after 56 minutes.

Hie match was watched by a crowd of
27,532. The second-leg will be played in
Amsterdam on Wednesday.

Alkmaar’s stern tackling and well organ-
ized offside trap presented Ipswich with real
problems in the first half but the second 45
minutes belonged to the quick thinking and

skillful English team which, ironically, was
inspired from midfield by two Dutchmen —
Thijssen and Arnold Muhren.

Mariner, Muhren and Gates all went close
to scoring before Ipswich took the lead in the
28 di minute.

Dutch international full back Hugo
Hovenkamp handled the ball as an acrobatic
shot from Mariner seemed goal-bound and
East German referee Adolf Prokop had no
hesitation in awarding a penalty. Wark beat
veteran goal-keeper Eddy Treytel from the
spotforhis 13th UEFA Cup goal this season.

Ipswich continued to flood forward, par-
ticularly down the left, but were held at bay
by some uncompromising defensive work.

Alkmaar must be thankful that Thijssen
and compatriot Arnold Muhren have chosen

ic seek fame and fortune in English football,
for the Dutch international duo mercilessly
teased and tormented their fellow country-
men.

Thijssen' s 46th-minutc goal was a superb
piece of opportunism and was adequate proof
of why he has been voted England* s footbal-
ler of the year. Collecting a flicked pass from
Brazil, Thijssen unleashed a right-foot drive
which Alkmaar s goalkeeper Eddy Treytel
did well to block with his legs. But Thijssen
was not to be denied and he followed up to
head the rebound into the net.

Brazil was again the architect for Ipswich's
third in the 51st minute, racing powerfully
down the left before crossing to Mariner, who
had the simple task of side-footing home
from four meters.

Withe included in England’s squads

LONDON. May 7 ( AP) — Aston Villa duo
Dennis Mortimer and Peter Whitheand West
Ham centerback Alvin Martin Wednesday
were named in the England soccer squads to
play four internationals in 12 days later thi?
month.

Manager Ron Greenwood named one
squad for the friendly international against
Brazil next Tuesday and a second squad for
die British home internationals against
Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Play-
ers from Ipswich town, involved in the two-
legged UEFA Cup final, are omitted from
both squads.

Liverpool players Ray Clemence, Phil
Neal, Phil Thompson and Teny McDermott
are ruled out of the home internationals
because Liverpool meets Real Madrid of
Spain the European Cup Final in Paris on

March 27.

Mortimer and Withe, key men in Aston
Villa's championship winning team are
among the 17 players included in both
squads, while Martin is named only for the
home internationals.

England boss Greenwood adds Gary
Bailey and Garry Birtles of Manchester
United, Derek Statfaam of West Bromwich
and Trevor Cherry of Leeds to the home
international squad to replace the absent
Liverpool players.

The England squad to play Brazil at
Wembley Tuesday: Ray Clemence (Liver-
pool). Peter Shilton (Nottingham Forest),
Joe Corrigan ( Manchester City), Viv Ander-
son (Nottingham Forest), Phil Neal (Liver-
pool), Dave Watson (Southampton), Phil
Thompson (Liverpool), Kenny Sansom

(Arsenal), Terry McDermott (Liverpool),
Glenn Hoddle (Tottenham), Bryan Robson
( West Bromwich), Ray Wilkins l Manchester
United). Graham Rix (Arsenal), Trevor
Brooking (West Ham), Dennis Mortimer
(Aston Villa), Steve Coppell (Manchester
United), Kevin Keegan (Southampton), Tre-
vor Francis (Nottingham Forest), Tony
Woodcock (Cologne), Peter Withe (Aston
Villa), Peter Barnes ( West Bromwich).

Squad for the home internationals: Shil-
ton, Iorrigan, Gary Bailey (Manchester
United), Anderson, Trevor Cherry (Leeds),
Watson, Alvin Martin ( West Ham), Sansom,
Derek Statham ( West Bromwich), Hoddle.
Robson, Wilkins, Rix, Brooking, Mortimer,
Coppell. Keegan. Garry Birtles ( Manchester
United), Francis, Woodcock, Withe and
Barnes.

Rough play mars Lufthansa Cup semifinals

By Laurie Thomas

JEDDAH, May 7 — The Lufthansa Cup
and Plate competitions moved past the semi-
finals stage last week and will now feature
Toyota and Zahid in the final of tfie Cup and
NIJA ( 1) and Dynasty in the Plate final. The
finals are scheduled for Sunday (May 10) at
the Jeddah Stadium, off the Makkah Road,
and will start at 7.00 p.m. with the Cup, fol-
lowed at 9.00 p.m. by the Plate final.

'Hie semifinals were marred by two serious
incidents of violence among players, which
resulted in one match being abandoned and a
second match being delayed for ten minutes.
The first incident involved League champ-
ions Dallah Avco.andNJlA(l). With seven-
teen minutes left to play and NJIA leading
4-1, two players started fighting and this
quickly spread until most of the players

became involved. The referee abandoned the
match and League secretary Peter Dixon
decided that as both teams seemed equally at
fault, the score would stand. In the second
semifinal. Dynasty swamped Whittaker Villa
6-0, as expected.

In the Clip semis, Toyota turned on a
strong display to oust Asmara 2-1 a md must
now feel more than confident for the coming
final. While Asmara were not overwhelmed,
they were definitely subdued by Toyota's
strength, although the latter were disappoint-
ing in front of goal. Toyota's opener can only
be described as a fluke, an intended long
centerfrom Dan Woods being misldckedand
sailing over the keeper into the top comer of
the Asmara net.

The second resulted from the only blunder
by the Asmara defense, who stood" motion-
less as Azadin headed in a cross from Richard

Lambert. Asmara replied with a goal 35
minute into the second half and the increased
tension immediately resulted in fighting bet-
ween two players. This again spread, but the
situation resolved itself and play continued
with both teams a player short. This is the
second consequetive Cup match in which
Toyota has had a player sent off.

Five goals in the second half gave Zahid a
6-1 victory over Sogex. However, Zahicfs
overall performance against the Third Divi-
sion side was far from convincing and at half-
time. the 1-0 score was almost fianering.
Sean Shields scored a hat- trick for Zahid.

The final, on the astroturf of Jeddah Stadium,
should favor Toyota's controlled, skillful
style, and Zahid will have ro find hidden
reserves if they want to add the Lufthansa
Cup to their League Cup trophy.

Hussein outplays Nor for squash crown

By Jean Grant

DHAHRAN, May 7 — Mu staph a Hus-
sein, Egyptian veteran squash player won the
Kingdomwide Invitation Masters Squash
Tournament last Friday (May I) by over-
whelming young Hussein Al Nor from Jed-
dah before a packed audience at the Univer-
sity of Petroleum and Minerals (UPW)
Recreation Center courts.

In the first game of die final, Hussein didn't
allow his opponent Al Nor to capture a single
point. As Hussein eased up in the second
game, his countryman Al Nor slipped over a
point. In the third game of the set, Hussein
continued his winning streak 9-3. Although
21-year-old Al Nor was five times age group
champion of Egypt, he was baffled by die
tremendous variety of shots of Hussein, a
prolific strokemaker.

Mustapha Hussein, was twice Egyptian
professional champion 1972-73, and reached
die final stages of the British Open ten years
ago. A finalist in last year’s Invitation Mas-
ters Tournament here, the coolheaded
champion's victory this year was due to his
accuracy and consistency. From start to finish
he was clearly the crowd's favorite, to many
of whom he had Taught the game as one of
UPM's squash coaches.

Al Nor is a promising player having defe-
ated third placed Larif Rafiquefrom Aramco
in the semi-finals, hut he had little scope to
show his skill in the final, so dearly was he
outclassed by Mustapha Hussein. Al Nor.
who recently arrived in Jeddah, works for

Binladen Telecommunications there.

In the third-place playoffs Rafique defe-
ated Mike Kingston from Riyadh in a
tightly-matched set, breaking the 2-2 game
tie with a tension-filled game won by Rafi-
que’s dazzling lobs and drop shots. Presently
an internist at King Faisal Hospital, Kingston
has been playing squash for 30 years in Eng-
land, Canada, and Africa. Rafique' s win
repeats his accomplishment of Iasi year in

finishing third in the 1980 Arabian Masters.
He was triple Indian National Junior Champ-
ion.

Players who readied the quarterfinals were
Kim Eeles from UPM, Welshman Alan
James from Jeddah. South African Mario
Joquaim now working for BAC, and Egyp-
tian Abdul Multaled from Riyadh, who
works for Bell Canada and is squash coach for
the equestrian club there.

PROUD v VINNERS: Mustapha Hussein (right). Vi Nor (left! and Latif Rafique, are all
smiles as they piwe with their trnphies.

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DISCARD OR MITTERRAND?

The first round of the French presidential election in Franoe
yielded its lesson only gradually. What looked at first like a
sign of an assured win for the incumbent, turned on reflection
into something else. Calculations were thrown by failure to
read the significance of the major surprise of the round, which
was the near catastrophic collapse of the Communist vote. It
only dawned later that this in fact removed from the incum-
bent's hand his main weapon against Mitterrand, which was
the contention that a Socialist president would easily fall prey
to Communist pressure. The election showed that the Com-
munist Party is not and will not be for a long time in a position
to dictate terms: they might go through the motions of doing
so, but these will lack subsrance.

This means that President Giscard needs all the Gaullist
help he can get. And here too there was a disappointment:
Chirac's “personal" support was lukewarm, leaving the Gaul-
lists to make their own choice. Many of them will of-course
flock to the incumbent’s side on the day. But several Gaullist
voices have already been heard declaring that a Socialist pres-
idency is not as deplorable a prospect as it is usually pointed,
and that a second term for Giscard will only prolong the
Gaullists’ absence from power. Thus a Socialist alliance (at
least an alliance with some sections of the Gaullists) is no
longer an impossibility.

It is well to remember that last time the incumbent and
Mitterrand fought over the presidency the former won by a
tiny margin of less than one per cent, while the latest polls put
the Socialist leader three point ahead. Next Sunday will show
whether Mitterrand - s low key electoral style will convince
enough voters to risk a Socialist regime, or whether sufficient
numbers of them decide at the last minute that the continuity
Giscard represents is best for the country at present. Mitter-
rand has already announced his intention of holding a general
election later in the summer if be wins, a prospect few could
view with enthusiasm.

Nab news

Britain seeks to curb military spending

By Leonard Downie Jr.

LONDON —

The Thatcher government has begun a major
review of Britain's long-terin defense spending to
curb military equipment costs without abandoning
any of its basic commitments to NATO, Defense
Minister John Nott announced last month. Nott and
other defense officials indicated that some major
equipment and weapons development may have to
be curtailed because of economic constraints and
the escalating cost of new military technology. Nott
cited the example of West Germany, which recently
announced the cancellation or delay of new tanks,
anti-tank missiles, fighter aircraft and other pro-
jects for the 1990s.

“Some of us are spreading our efforts too thinly”
he said of Britain and other European allies. “We
are going to have to concentrate our efforts'' on the
most cost-effective equipment and weapons. Nott
also revealed that Britain's defense spending will
not be increased above the cost of inflation in the
coming fiscal year because overspending had
pushed this year’s increase to 5 per cent above
inflation. This year’s overspending was forced by
defease contractors who delivered ordeis early
because they had less non-military work during Bri-
tain's severe recession.

Britain's annual increase in defense spending will
still average abuot 2%- per cent above inflation,
Nott said, compared to the agreed NATO target of
3 per cent. Defense analysts here estimate Britain’s
military expenditure would have to grow by at least
7 per cent above inflation each year to maintain ail
its current defense commitments and future equip-
ment and weapons development.

U.S. Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger had
urged Nott in Washington in March to consider
raising Britain's military expenditure above the 3
per cent target. Weinberger also reminded allied
defense ministers at NATO meeting last month
how much more the Reagan administration was
spending on defense. Non told reporters he was

certain that “the Reagan administration believes
we are making a unique contribution to NATO” by
continuing to maintain ground forces in West Ger-
many, sea and air defense of the eastern Atlantic
supply route from the United States to Europe,
defense of Britain itself and the many NATO bases
here, and an independent British ncul ear deterrent.

Contrary to recent speculation here, Nott
emphasized that all these commitments would be
maintained. In particular, he said, the commitment
of 55,000 British troops in West Germany “is not
under review, nor is it questioned.” He also said a
reveiw of Thatcher’s decision to replace Britain's
present Polaris submarine-based nudear missiles
with an American-made Trident system costing at
least $11 billion left him “more sure than ever that
there is no other expenditure which comes near to
Trident m enhancing the deterrent capability of the
alliance and the defense of Europe.”

Without abandoning any of its broad NATO
commitments, Nott said in a Defense White Paper
published last month: “I shall be considering in the
coining months with the chiefs of staff, and in con-
sultation with our allies, how technological and
other changes can help us fulfill the same basic roles
more effectively in the future without the massive
increase in real defense expenditure which the esca-
lation of equipment costs might otherwise seem to
imply.”

In Britain's “present financial circumstances,''
Nott argued, “ we have too full an equipment prog-
ram for the financial resources available for
defense." As an example, he said, “we have some
extremely expensive equip men t that is not properly
armed" because too much money is tied up in
sophisticated ships, submarines, aircraft and tanlcs
while too little is spent on the weapons and sensors
they carry because of budget cuts.

Other "deep cuts in procurement of ammunition,
fuel and oil and essential spare parts” have curtailed
training and British military movements “too
severely,” Nott added.” We mustre-establishinthe
long-term program the right balance between the

inevitable resource constraints and our necessary
defense requirements.”

Nott, a staunch supporter of Prime Minister Mar-
garet Thatcher’s economic strategy who was made
defense minister earlier this year, said he hoped to
announce the results of the spending review by late
summer.

" 1 am doing my utmost to ensure there will not be
any changes that will upset our allies,'* he told
reporters. “We are performing a crucial role in
NATO and I am perfectly clear in my own mind that
we should not do anything which would destabilize
it in any .way. That would be extremely damaging.'”
But he added that “we may have arrived at another
turning point in defense. Technological change is
accelerating and the public mood has become more
questioning."

Nott bointed out that Britain' s defense spending
still equals that of West Germany or France, even
though} Britain’s Gross National Product is now
only tvp-thirds as large. As a percentage of GNP,
he noted, Britain's 52 per cent devoted to defense
nearly fequals the 5.5 per cent spent by the United
States/

He and the Defense White Paper also defended
scessity of Britain's and NATO's nudear
>ns against growing opposition here and else-
in Europe by “well-meaning people worried
the horrors of modern war who advocate
:ral nudear disarmament.” Nott said Britain
committed at the same time to East- West
itrol regulations.

he and the White Paper were silent about
ie British government would react if, in addi-
efforts to modernize NATO's nudear
in Europe, the Reagan administration also
to deploy the neutron bomb or resume
>n and stockpiling of chemical warfare
. Informed sources say British officials
believfe both decisions may be inevitable and should
be supported by Britain, but are concerned abput a
pubUctbacklash if they are pushed on Europe too
soon. fWP)

Saudi Arabian Press Review

The weekend newspapers led with the second
round of talks held Wednesday between Crown
Prince Fahd and visiting Austrian Chancellor
Bruno Kreisky, during which they were reported to
lave discussed the Middle East crisis, the Palestine
issue, and bilateral cooperation.

Newspapers frontpaged Kreisky s press confer-
ence in which he reaffirmed that there was an iden-
tity of views on many issues discussed between the
two sides .AlNadwa gave front-page prominence to
Kreiskv's reiteration to PLO Chairman Yasser
Arafat that the Middle East issue cannot be solved
on an equitble basis unless the rights of the Palesti-
nians are ensured.

Newspapers also frontpaged the Lebanese situa-
tion and Israeli Premier Begin* s threat to “elimi-
nate” the Syrian missiles from Lebanon. In a page
one story, A/ Medina reported that the Organization
of the Islamic Conference ( OIC) is preparing a draft
proposal for the upcoming Islamic Foreign Minis-
ters’ conference in Baghdad to tackle the issue of
the Filipino Muslims. Al Jazirah gave front-page
highlight to the Irish Republican Army’s threat to
explode bombs and dynamite in London, in the
wake of the death of Irish revolutionary Bobby
Sands, who died in prison two days ago after a

66-dav hunger strike.

Commenting editorially on Chancellor kreisky s
role in the Middle East. Al Jazirah noted that the
Austrian leader's belief in the Palestine issue as &e
crux of the Middle East conflict had led him to play
asSl more constructive role after his talks with the

Saudi Arabian leadership and Yasser Arafat. The
paper hoped that Kreisk/ s' initiative would further
crystallize the European view which largely con-
vinced about the basic facts in regard to the Arab-
Israeli conflict. It further hoped that the Austrian
Chancellor would prevail upon Europe to believe
that its own security is linked to Arab and Middle
East security, which Israel is trying to jeopardize
through its intransigent acts. The paper also advised
Europe to convince the United States that the lat-
ter’s total partiality toward Israel would eventually
drag it into Strategic and political errors in the Mid-
dle East, which would in turn provide an opportun-
ity for the Soviet Union to expand politically and
militarily in the region. The paper warned that
America’ s failure to recognize the PLO recognition
as the sole representative of the people of Palestine
will continue to be considered an oppressive and
unjust policy by die Arabs, and will eventually lead
to an endless conflict between the Arabs and Israel
and perhaps also a world war.

now trying to thwart all attempts toward a national
conciliation in Lebanon.

Discussing Israel's vainglory and despotism, Al
Medina said that the Jewish attempt to annihilate
die Palestinians does not need any proof, and added
that Israel alone is not responsible for the crimes
being perpetrated on the people of Palestine. All
those who support Israel are to be blamed as well
for the woes of the Palestinian people. Turning
toward Israeli aggressive acts against Lebanon, the
paper observed that the major powers, mainly the
U.$.,do nothing to stop aggression, because they do
not care to look at the situation from the angle of
right and justice.

In a reference to Begin’s vituperations against
French and German leaders, Al Riyadh observed
editorially that his charges were so cruel that both
Paris and Bonn did not care to take any notice. It
said that Begin and some members of the Reagan
administration believe that the shift in European
attitudes was behind the escalation of die situation
in the Middle East. But Begin pretends to forget
that his own intransigence was instrumental in the
continuance of the Lebanese dvii war, and he is

AlNadwa was critical over the American concern
about Syrian missiles in Lebanon, and wanted to
know whether it was illegl for the Arab - Deterrent
Forces to kept missiles for self-defense, and
whether it is legitimate that Israel should continue
to strafe Lebanese territory when ever it wishes to.
The paper regretted the U.S. administration’s deci-
sion to send envoys to the region, presumably to
prevail upon Syria to withdraw the missiles from
Lebanon, so that South Lebanon should become
fully vulnerable to Israel's wanton assaults.

Commenting on the same subject, Al Yom
appreciated Syria’s stance on the missiles and its
firm rejection of the Israeli demand. But it also
regretted Washington's support for the Israeli
demand, sending its envoys to the region to per-
suade Syria to withdraw the missilesfrora Lebanon.

“No use in c h angin g appearances! Your game is exposed!”

-AlBilad

t

FRIDAY, May & —

Afghanistan
schools
in chaos

By Anthony Hyman

LONDON -

Education in Afghanistan has virtually colIaDsed
in the three years of chaos since the coup of 1978
All levels of education have been hit by the civfl
war, from the thousands of priraarv school in the
villages and towns, to the few colleges and univer
sines built up with difficulty over the last ?0 veare.

In the “liberated areas"'- those indep'endentof
the Kabul authorities — schools are either burned
down or dosed. Even in the cities under Soviet
control, there is a severe shortage of qualified
teachers because thousands have gone into exile
along with a tenth of the Afghan population’
Details of the crisis in Afghan colleges and in Kabul
University come from fugitive teachers arriving ir
Pakistan and other places of refuge.

They daim that teaching at Kabul University ha?
ended in all but name, and that serious stu'dem
protests at the continued Soviet presence have dk
rupted what remains of the curriculum. Many stu-
den ts refuse to u ttend compulsory d asses in “politi
cal sdence" given party militants. Many morehavt
given up thier studies altogchter, either becausi
they have been drafted into the Afghan Anny.hav.
joined the freedom fighters or have fled across th
border.

The number of students resigtering far entnmc
to colleges and universities has fallen for three sue
cessive years. The Afghan new year (beginnin
March 21 ) saw only 4,000 new students, compare
to last year’s 14,000 and well over 20,000 in earlk
years. A Kabul University professor who fled t
Peshawar at the end of March says the country
engineering college has no new students at all an
will be dosed soon.

The cooperation of American. West German a/?.' r
French universities with the main Kabul facultie. V
which was ended by the Soviet intervention ] '

months ago, is being replaced by Soviet assistnne '
Russian language studies arc steadily bring subn
rated for English . German and French, the hither * rt :
dominant languages in Afghan higher education \f/t

Kabul Polytechnic, already Soviet-backed ai'T
using the Russian language long before the Sovi \
intervention, is apparently considered by the Krai
tin to be a sounder basis for future education th
the Western-linked university.

Afghan teachers naturally do not like the eraei
ing dependence on the USSR and its allied stall
They especially dislike the ttend to total reliance
places in the Soviet Union and East Europe I
Afghan students who need to travel abroad :
higher education.

Kyprianou ma

lose election
to Clerides

By Juliet Pearce

NICOSIA

Political tempers are rising on the Greek side
the Cyprus barricades as the campaign for the \
24 elections gathers momentum. Seven partia
for a population of ha!f-a-million — are vying
the 35 seats in the house of representatives. 0 ts
the wide political spectrum, not one candidate
come up with any practical new ideas to end
island's division into two hostile zones, Greek
Turkish.

The presence of Turkish troops in the north o
island weighs heavily on the campaign. Slogar
mass rallies demand die'iiberation" of Cyprus
deplore the plight of thousands of Greck-Cypi
displaced by the creation of a separate Turk
Cypriot stale. In fact, the campaign has slowed
intercommunal negotiations seeking ways to
the deadlock. The Turkish side wants to wait ant
which way the political pendulum swings be
tabling firm territorial proposals.

The vote is expected to sanction a new \
Western conservative force represented by D
tiie Democratic Rally Party of Glafkos Cleridi
World .Var II. gunner in the British 1 Royal
Force. Until now DISI has had only one raemb
the house, although it polled close to 30 percei
the popular vote. A new system of proporti
representation is expected to give DISI □ phalar
VIPs.

At the same time, however, the Communist /
Party is expected to keep its strength, which be
dissolution of the house consisted of nine menif
Although the population of Cyprus is of rural s
and under strong influence from the Greek Or
dox Church, Akel has established a solid poii
base. Part of its appeal is irs insistence on folio 1
the “guidelines” set by the late Archbid
President Makarios.

The biggest loser might be President Spyros *
rianou’s Democratic Party. DIKO, Eroded by d
tions and its leader’s lack of charisma, DIK
parliamentary strength has dwindled from 17 s
to nine in the past year. The vote may set the s'
for early presidential elections, which are notaJ
i rationally due • for rwo years. Early elections o
be called if Kyprianou loses more support; som
his opponents already speculate about his pos
resignation.

What is certain is that the elections will pinp
the man most likely to succeed in the presida
race. Western embassies are putting their bet
Clerides.

The Turks, who watch the campaign from at
the fortified demarcation line, are doubtful al
Clerides' ability to speak for the Greek-Cyf
community because he does not have the backir
the Greek Orthodox Church. Nonetheless, Off
is perhaps the only man capable of making a dr
the wall of hostility between the two communi
partly because of his personal relationship vrith
Turkish-Cypriot leader, Rauf Denktash and p*
because of his pragmatic approach to Turkish
ims.

In his campaign speeches, Clerides has been i
rained, promising to work for “a national, Cyp
solution." A veteran politician, Clerides intenc
polarize the electorate between the Right and
Left, between those who have ruled the island
the past 20 years and the “rising forces of ebani

The other parties include the Socialist EDE^

by Vassos Lyssarides; PA ME the Pan-Cyp
Front for Change led by Otrisostomos Sofianos
New Democratic Party of Alecos VGchaelides;
the Center Union Party of Tassos Papadopoul*
former cabinet minister and a well-known fi?
during the guerrilla struggle against Britain-

Apart from file issue of the Turkish mtiitary p
ence, economic problems figure prominently m ■
campaign. The much-publicized "Cyprus econ c
miradtf ’ appears to have been ended by the®*’
ationai recession and cuts m die flow of bio w
followed the 1974 Turkish landing. (ONSJ

FRIDAY, MAY 8, 198]

Man held to account i

irierTfn Ivnl^ tu w wee ^? we have Questions like the following are

of Itff «illT J COncept pr °P er and fair: Has ,he '“k been

role as Allah’s e . esta Wished man’s properly carried out? Has the re been

Sled^thr^ 86 - 16 "^ earth ' a "y ^e-wasting? Has there teen
i t vi rtf hit j^f^on ^building any mismanagement of resources,

and worthy of * S happy misuse of facilities, or abuse of

authority? If a person is found to

and worthy of Allah’s vicegerent. M>
also discussed man’s need for gui-
dance in order to fulfill his mission.
Since he has been given what he
needs of freedom of choice, resulting
in his ability to violate, in certain
respects, the laws of nature, proper
guidance becomes most important if

have acted properly and fulfilled his
task in an exemplary manner then
retention in office or promotion can
be expected. If the opposite is true
then punishment or dismissal is the
fair course of action.

Man’s life on earth is actually a

j _ i ■ i .

nitfaik l ^ e J? rious types of triaI P eriod during which every indi-

pmalls hich he in his way. Proper vidual has the chance to prove

guidance has always been provided whether be or she has been attending
to man through the prophets the last to his or her mission with diligence

and vi S° r . °f the right gui-

veyed the message of Islam in its final
and complete form.

When we consider that rtlan has
been given all this by Allah, we can-
not escape the logical conclusion of
reckoning and accountability. In our
own little world we do not expect
anybody provided with all the
facilities he needs to cany out a task
he is charged with, and for which he
receives certain benefits, without
having to answer for what he does in
the period during which he is sup-
posed to fulfill his task.

dance provided by Allah through fee
prophets and conscious of the inevit-
able reckoning and subsequent
reward.

According to Islam no man 'pr
woman is to escape the reckoning.
Each is answerable for his or her
actions. No one can reap anybody
else’s reward. No one atones for tbe
sin or misconduct of anyone else. To
each Allah will give a fair reward!

Allah is the Supreme Lord of tl^e
Universe. Nothing that happens ip
the universe escapes His attentioii.

Old dhow maker persists
despite world 9 s changes

By Charles T. Powers

MATONDONI, Kenya, (LAT) — He is
our of the way of most tourists, but not so far
out the way that he forgets to ask for few
shillings before he lets his picture be taken.

And Osman Abdullah, SO, modestly clad
in a coil of dirty cloth that extends from his
waist to his bare feet, is not surprised that he
might be regarded as a tourist attraction,
even though he doesn' t really see many tour-
ists.

Osman Abdullah is a builder of boats — of
dhows to be exact — and from the accounts of
the boatmen around the island of Lamu and
the Kenya coast, he is regarded as a master.

"I make the big boat, I make the little
boat” he said, speaking Swahili that is trans-
lated by a visiting boatman. “I make what-
ever boat you want.”

As long as it's a dhow, of course, Abdullah
makes three or four of them a year and, given
the slack market for dhows these days, he just
•about keeps up with demand.

A dhow is a sailing vessel that was invented
by Arab seamen perhaps 2,500 years ago.
For nearly 2,000 years, these boats, with their
lovely lareen-rigged sails billowing from a
forward-leaning mast, have worked the wat-
ers of the east African coast. They have
freighted everything from slaves to jewelry
between Africa and Arabia. Along with peo-
ple. they carried ivory a nd animals away from
Africa and brought, eventually, Islam and the
beginnings of a new language. Swahili.

They do not bring much any more. A few
ocean-going cargo dhows are still con-
structed, but they are mostly used for work
along the coast — hauling Lamu cotton to
Mombasa, and Mombasa beer back to Lamu.
The days of dhow commerce between Ara-
bian Gulf and the African coast are, the
Swahili term, Kwisha — finished.

Which is why, despite his reputation as a
Fundi, a word that means "craftsman" and is
also a little of respect — Osman Abdullah has
no apprentices working with him to learn the
trade.

"The young people now consider it a trade
with no dignity.” said a boatman watching
Abdullah work. "They want study English
and le3m how to type.”

And so “Fundi Osman," as he has been
known in his island village for years, works
alone turning out the small dhows that are
still the primary means of moving people and
goods around the villages, along the beaches
and forested shores of this silent island.

The village of Vlatondoni is a three- hour
dhow ride from the town of Lamu, where the
tourists go. Lamu is a quiet place, its hush
enhanced by the almost total absence of cars
on the island — the single exception being the
one assigned to the island 1 s top politician. But
Matondoni is quieter still, so that the sounds
of crowing roosters, the thud of falling
coconuts and the periodic chop of Fundi
Osman's adze have unusual force.

Fundi Osman worked under a canopy of
straw, its sides open to what few breezes stir-
red the equatorial heat at midday. The
unshaded sun felt like a vast hot iron inches
above the head. Osman's shelrer stood 20
yards From a muddy tidal flat, its surface
cracking in the heat, in harmony with all this,
Osman moved slowly, an expression of more
or less permanent amusement playing on tus
features.

Osman was at work on a dhow for a Lamu
fisherman. The boat was about 24 feet long
and, at first glance, appeared to be a J on S way
from floating. The keel had been laid and the
sideboards turned and nailed from bow to
stern. Davlight showed everywhere, but at
the same time, the craftsmanship in the keel
and in the boat's perfect symmetry, even at
this stage, seemed, somehow, a dramatic
accomplishment, particularly to a person
accustomed to the seamless reliability of plas-

' tic, Fiberglass or metal.

Osman does all this work without a power
tool of any kind. There are no power tools in
Matondoni, because there ■» no power in
Matondoni. Osman's tools consist of ad^in
various sizes and weights and of implements
that look as if they might bring a dollar each
to some purveyor of quaint junk at a swap
meet. There are drills, awls. hammers, ousels
in a dozen shapes.

But nowhere is there a drawing, sketch, a
plan, or anv set of measurements, scale or
iiuide. tt is all in Osman’s head.
v “it is made to flout in this much water.

Osman said, holding his hands about IS
inches apart. “ \Vhen you tell me that, anil
bow long you want the boat, 1 then go to
work.” !

There is, then, a formula in Osman’s hc^d
which, he seemed to realize, would be useless
to explain. It was one he had begun to lea^i,
he said, when he was 20 years old, frdm
another man who built boats and now is dead.

The braces for the hull of the boat ire
formed from the limbs of heavy hardwciod
trees that have a natural bend. To fit a brace,
Osman chooses a twisted piece from the
tangle of logs around his canopy. He shapes it
a bit with his eavy adze then lifts it into ihe
boat to eye the fit.

Using a twig in a pot of tar, he draws the
contour be needs on the log, then hauls it out
and chops along the line, his skinny forearm
guiding the adze with unfailing precision.
After a dofzen fittings, the brace fits perfectly
against the inside of the bull.

There aj-e usually a few villagers hanging
around Fundi Osman's canopy. They are
invariably made and, like Osman himself,
seem amused much of the time. The atmos-
phere is somewhat akin to that of a small-
town barbershop or gas station, where most
of the jokes are incomprehensible to outrid-
ers.

“Are you going to build the dhow for
Ahmed Mahdi?” asked the boatman from

wants a boat?”

He told me he told you he wants a boat."

“A fisherman?”

“Yes, he told me he spoke about it with
you.”

“Yes, I build him a boat. Tell him to bring
money.”

There was laughter around the canopy,
where Ahmed Mahdi was a man known more
for plans than means.

The cost of Osman’s dhows, like every-
thing else, has gone up over the years, but by
Western standards a dhow still sounds like a
bargain.

Osman works with two basic agreements.
You can give him 8,000 Kenya shillings
(about $1,000) and three or four months
later, he will present you with a finished dhow

— minus the sails, which will cost another
$300. Or. if you want to provide the material,
he will come to your place and work for 50
shillings (about $6) a day, plus afternoon te::,
and work until the boat is finished.

“I would like to go to Lamu and work. ’
Osman S3id. “It is a long time since I have

e ffte?e t was discussion of this for a while,
and some laughter, apparently at the idea of
Osman, away from his wife and his daughter,
living it up in Lamu.

Osman smiled and chopped away with gen-
tle strokes of his adze, shaving fine curls of
wood from the crooked beam braced at his

got up and lifted the beam into the boat
to check its fit. Fotxyoung men stood watch-
ing him ashe looked and made marks with his
pot of tar. The idea of earning — or dividing

— 8,000 shillings for a slow three months of

work with Fundi Osman clearly had little
appeal for them.

AJflbnews Features

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The life of the Prophet -5
Preparation for a great task

What the Qur’an teaches

In the name of Allah , the Compassionate , the
Merciful.

When the Earth is rocked with her (final) earthquake.
When the Earth shakes of her burdens , and man cries:
“What is the matter with her? * ’ on that day she will tell
her news , that your Lord has inspired her ( with His com -
maud). On that day men will issue forth in small groups to
be shown their labors .

Whoever has done an atom’s weight of good will see it
then , and whoever has done an atom *s weight of evil will
see it then also.

(The Earthquake 99;1 -8)

Hence no action, good or bad, will be
overlooked no matter how small it is.

All actions will be taken into
account. A little kindness may be
weighty in Allah’s balance, if it
enjoys purity of motives. A spectacu-
lar action, on the other hand, may be
of little or no importance if the

motive behind it is personal gain.
Hence Islam teaches us not to belittle
any kind action, however small, for
Allah alone can judge motives. The
Qur’an tells us 1 ‘ Whoever has done
an atom 's weight of good will see it
then , and whoever has done an
atom 's weight of evil will see it then
also. ’ ’ (99;8).

Muhammad enjoyed with
Khadeejah a very happy married life,
which resulted over the years in the
birth of two boys and four girls.

The two boys died in infancy, as
did his only other child bom in a later
marriage, long after Khadeejah's
death. His four girls lived longer and
were married. But all of them died in
early womanhood. Only the
youngest, Fatemah, was to survive
him; but even she did not live long
after him.

As the years went by Muham-
mad’s dislike of idol worship became
much stronger. Indeed he took
exception to this primitive form of
Polytheism even when he was young.
Now in his mid- thirties he began to
feel that the very few traces of Mono-
theism that can be discovered in the
Arabian society, and which must
have come originally from Abraham,
the prophet, are the only pointers to
a satisfactory concept of religious
belief. These, however, were too few
to form any coherent concept,
although they did point to the unity
of God.

Muhammad began to enjoy sol-
itude. During the lunar month of

Ramadan he would go lo a mu un la in
near Makkah where he would May
for several days at a lime, a wav from
the bustle of Yfakkah. In the little,
cave of Hira. high up in the mountain ,
which was later to he re- named as
Mount An-Noor {or light). He
devoted all his time to contemplation
and worship.

vVe have no record of what form of
worship Muhammad followed. *Ve
only know that he followed the prin-
ciples of Abraham's faith, which was
a Unitarian religion. Most probablv,
Muhammad's worship in those days
took the shape of an informal prayer
or a direct appeal to Allah, the Lord
of the Universe.

There is no doubt that Muham-
mad's solitary worship in the years
immediately preceding his prophet-
hood were part of his education and
preparation by Allah for the great
task with which he was shortly to be
entrusted. vVe cannot fail to sec
Allah’s kindness, to Muhammad as
He led his footsteps in such a way
that he would be as fully equipped as
possible for his mission.

(To be continued next Friday)
Adil Salahi

Dhahran Art Group displays 250 works in annual showing

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lisplay of paintings, sculpture, and pottery. palms and flowers over her quilted surface in ‘ ‘ *' * A T2 — :r~^'r r ’V-

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By Jean Grant

DHAHRAN — The Dhahran Art Group's
26th Annual Spring Show was more than a
display of paintings, sculpture, and pottery.
The advance viewing encapsulated all aspects
of the “good life”: Oriental carpets to cush-
ion every footfall, fruit punch to sip and
cookies to nibble, the fragrance of fresb-cut
flowers to sniff while the muted pluckings of a
classical guitar wafted over the heads of vie-
wers.

Fifty-five entrants — half of them first-
time exhibitors — displayed more than 250
works of art. Much of the representational art
drew for inspiration on the Saudi scene, but it
was patently a Saudi scene of the interior
decorator more’s die pity since the show's
collective talent focused resolutely on an
idealized picture-postcard version of Saudi
life rather than the three-dimensional reality
itself. There were few contemporary scenes,
with none of the stark beauty of oil derricks
or desert flares. *

A ubiquitous motif of the exhibition
seemed to be the back streets of sun-
drenched villages with fine examples of
lattice-work balconies and traditional Islamic
architecture. Two talented artists — the pro-
lific Jerry Chicko and textile designer, Tania
Lee Beaumont, contributed many such
scenes.

“If you don’ t get it down quick enough, it’ll
desappear,” said prize-winning Chicko. for
whom coming to Arabia had been “a long
dream.”

In his street scenes of Riyadh, be manages
to capture that city’s windy feel. Because he
sketched these very early in the morning, his
palette consists of surprisingly cool colors;
mauves, dusty pinks, and icy cerulean blues.
Unlike other artists, Chicko does not rely on
photographs, but on the 30 to 40 sketches he
makes each time he goes out. He refines these
on his airplane trips back to Dhahran and
bases the paintings he does m the evening on
them. In his line drawing " vVcdding at
Saihat” he captures the mood of welcome
and excitement of the musicians.

“I didn't take any pictures" he says of this
wedding of a friend’s son, “but I took lots of
memories.”

Chicko who hails from Rhode Island,
sketched Katif, Safwa, and Jubail (when it
was still a sleepy little town on the Arab Gulf)
during the two years he lived m Ras Tanura.
Last year he chose a sandy palette for his
paintings of Hofuf.

Ruth Burwell, who has been exhibiting her
paintings at the annual exhibition since 1 974.
won first place in the oils and acrylics class for
her Young Bedouin Man. Her arresting por-
trait is that of a noble head, very contempla-
tive and glowing with monochrome sepia-, a
color which is similar to that of sand.

R. Meyer’s kingsize quilt, A Day in a Per-
sian Garden was one of the most admired
pieces on display. This commissioned work,
which took 320 hours to complete, is based
upon the garden carpets made in Persia two '
centuries ago. Her patron requested colors
“colorful but restrained” so Mrs. Meyer
studied Persian miniatures to find hues that
would fill her client's bill while remaining
true to the tradition of the garden carpets.

She then dyed white cotton these colors.
The quilt, which is completely handmade,
runs from the first glow of dawn at its top.

through the stronger blue of midday and
afternoon, down to the dusky light of evening
at the bottom. Mrs. Meyer scatters cypresses,
palms and flowers over her quilted surface in
neatly framed rectangles.

The sculpture prize went once again this
year to Sam Matson for his Seahorse, a
welded steel sculpture over 5 feet tall.

“ Welding is like mugic," said Matson, who
learned in solder when he was a boy. “To
take mel.il*. and put them* together at 3.200
degrees and have the result be so perma-
nent..." his voice trails off as he considers the
process that changes castoff wires used lo
hold bundles of reinforcing rods for construc-
tion into sculptures that can last for centuries.
Having welded for 15 years. Matson com-
pletes two or three serious pieces a year.

Other works included the gargantuan
artichoke still life by Raj Kubba painted in
lurid greens, vibrant pinks and fire engine
reds which won the committee's award. Enza
QuagnnrlPs sensitive water color of Lebanese
Man recalls the portraiture of Egon Schiele
while her oriental Patriarch conveyes both
strength and suspicion in neatly balanced
proportions.

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Jerry Gudko's “Wedding in Saihat.”

Live music was provided throughout the j s h master. Andres Segovia in Sienna fifteen

evening by guitarists George Olsczak. Bob years ago. Selections 'for rhe Dhahran Art

Romero, Ken Hall and Bill Lamp. Now work- Show included pieces by J.S. Bach. Handel,
ing at Jubail, Olsczak studied with the Span- and Villa-Lobos.

LEG POWER: Dave Marsh, from Norfolk, England, leg powers his vehicle to a speed of
54 J 89 mph during die 7th International Human Powered Speed Championships in
Pomona, California. Marsh placed second.

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Death stalks poverty-stricken blacks: Atlanta revisited

(Wfa-epboia)

OVERWHELMING GRIEF: John Alton Payne is comforted by friends outside an
Atlanta cbnrch daring funeral services for his brother, Jimmy Ray Payne, the 26th black
youth to be murdered in a string of killings in Atlanta.

At Kalau pa pa, Hawaii

Former leper colony to

By Art Harris

ATLANTA, ('VP) — The tragedy of
the children of Atlanta has focused the

nation's attention on something many
would rather not think about’, the palhol
ogy of poverty and the ugly things it does
children.

Now there are 27 victims, missing or
murdered by a mysterious killer or killers
preying only on poor young blacks, mostly
boys. Police have made no arrests in 21

months.

The pathetic nature of some of these
children's stories rivals die horror of their

murders. Consider Teny Pue, IS, one of
10 children whose family once spent two

nights in a hospital emergency room
because it had no place else to go
Finally, his father told him he'd just
have to fend for hi mself. So he tried, alone
on the streets, hustling to make it, sleeping
with friends, or sometimes in vacant

houses.

Aaron Jackson, 9, an inner-city Tom
Sawyer, was on his own at all hours of the
day or night, often barefoot and dirty.
Once a neighbor found him curled up on
ber couch. He'd gotten hungry, broken
into her house, raided her refrigerator,
and fallen asleep.

“Ghetto children are usually left alone
with an overburdened mother, or an

absentee mother who has the dual job of
raising a family and earning a living, so
they try to make their own family units
among peers outside the home, on the
street,” said Charles King, director of
Atlanta's urban Crisis Center.

Many of the victims lived by their wits
on Ghetto chutzpah, vying for the atten-
tion of too few parents among too many
brothers and sisters.

No killer would ever get them, they

By Ronald B. Taylor

KALAUPAPA. Hawaii. (LAT) — High
on the verdant cliffs a hand of tourists inched
their way down the steep trail toward the new
Kalaupapa National Historic Park and the
old leper colony.

It was not the scenicgrandeur of this rocky
peninsula jutting out from Molokai's rugged
north coast alone that brought them here.
They had also come to see the colony and the
grave of father Joseph Damien De Veuster,
Belgian priest, who lived and worked among
the lepers and finally died there, a victim of
the disease.

Leprosy. Once the diagnosis meant
lifetime banishment and a painful, grotesque
existence, then death and burial in this lonely
place.

Kalaupapa. For a century the name itself
struck terror in the hearts of Hawaiians who

Water geysers
are home for
new sea life

By Philip J. Hilts

LOS ANGELES, ( WP) — A research ship
off South America has radioed back repons
of the discovery of new hot water geysers on
the bottom of the Pacific Ocean and new
“unidentiGed, fascinating” sea creatures,
apparently never seen before.

The fields of geysers and array of new and
unusual sea creatures found by the research
ship Melville are apparently the largest of the
“ocean vent communities" yet discovered.
The first was found in 1977, off the
Galapagos Islands, the second some rime
later off Mexico. Last week’s messages rep-
resented the third and fourth sightings.

Together the finds are probably the great-
est discovery of whole new animal communities
in the history of biology.

Until the first of the discoveries in 1977,
the sea floor was known only as u near-
freezing, pitch-black terrain, nearly barren of
all life. Animals there must live without light
and must endure pressures 250 to 500 times
greater than land animals.

But hot water gushing up through small
■‘smokestacks" in the sea floor have now
been found to produce little communities of
creatures in these difficult circumstances.

Whole new arrays of species, genuses and
families unlike any evolved elsewhere on
earth live in little communities that range in
size from 3i) to 500 feet in diameter and are
laid out around the hot geysers, their source
of life in the cold, black water.

The Melville’s radio reports to the National
Science Foundation, which is sponsoring the
research, began last Thursday night and con-
tinued through the weekend.

Parallel to" Peru and straight south of the
Galapagos Islands, the Melville’s researchers
found at depth of 9.000 feet the same kind of
creatures first discovered at other vents —
including six-foot, blood-red “tube worms”,
foot-wide red dams with white shells, and
new varieties of crabs, limpets and jellyfish-
like plants called dandelions.

According to the radio messages, other
creatures found at the new sites were not
present at the older vent sites. Starfish,
apparently of a kind never seen before,
appeared for the first time at the new geyser
sites.

The radio message also referred to
“unidentified fasdnating objects for the
biologists to pursue.”

The Melville has also taken the first sam-
ples of rock from the vents, and of the geyser
water itself, which ranges from about 75 to
750 degrees Fahrenheit. The surrounding
water is" about 35 degrees.

The patches of life found by the Melville in
one area, around a very hot geyser, extended
to an area of 250 feet by 500 feet.

be park

Although virtually all surface life on earth
depends directly or indirectly; on light and
photosynthesis for its energy and food, the
unusual biology of the creatures at die vent
sites apparenflv allows them to use as their
source of enerev the chemicals in the geyser

source

water.

faced exile here.

Now all of that has changed.

Leprosy is a treatable disease and its vic-
tims are no longer banished to colonies like
Kalaupapa.

And Kalaupapa, no longer a dread place, is
now a special kind of national park, it is still
home for rhe last 125 people who were sent
here years ago.

Most of them are in their 50s and 60s and
have always lived here since they were chil-
dren. Medically, they are not contagious and
arefreeto leave, but they have chosen to stay.

They live in stare housing on the grounds of
the leprosarium, which was laid out in the
early part of the century to resemble a small
town, complete with store, post office, hospi-
tal, firehouse and police station.

The separation from family and friends a
half century ago is still a painfully sharp
memory today. One elderly resident who was
snatched off a school ground when he was 7,
said, “Oh, how 1 missed my momma.”

A Hawaiian woman in her 50s explained,
“I love it here. It’s home, a part of me. Here
we are one big Ohana (family). 'Ve had no
choice when we came. Now we want to stay. I
want to die here."

The federal law that created the new park
guarantees these people the right to live out
their lives in Kalaupapa. And the stare health
department is committed to continue provid-
ing them with housing, food and clothing
allowances, medical aid and a small cash
stipend.

On the surface, things look peaceful
enough in Kalaupapa, but underlying the
calm there are currents of unrest and deep
resentment toward the state.

A patient, Paul Harada, said, “They (the
state) took our lives, shoved us out. We were
brought here to protect them (the public),
and now they expect we should be happy and
grateful because they take care of us."

Bernard Punikaia, chairman of the
Kalaupapa patients' council, said, “The gov-
ernment's perception of leprosy patients is
that we are mindless."

For years much of the unrest here has cen-
tered around the patients' fear that the state's
efforts to save tax dollars would result in the
closure of Kalaupapa, despite its promises to
the contrary.

That fear was expressed as early as 1 972 by
Richard Marks, a patient, who wrote: “when
politics and prime land come together, watch
the scrap begin with the odds that the resort
development will emerge the winner.... this
unspoiled peninsula must be saved for a
national park."

Punikaia and the patients' council strongly
supported the national park idea, and when
Congress enacted the law creating Kalaupapa
National Historic Park, they considered it a
major victory because the act wrested control
of die land away from the state.

Technically, the peninsula and the high
cliffs that separate Kalaupapa from “top-
side" Molokai — about 20,000 acres in all —
belong in pan to the state and in part to the
Department of Hawaiian Homelands.

The federal government will not acquire
these lands, but through negotiated agree-
ments the National Park Service will act as
the administrator of the area, preserving
archeological situs, restoring and preserving
historic buildings and developing visitor
information services.

The Catholic church will keep and main-
tain St. Philomena’s Church, built by
Damien. Because the priest, who died in
18SS and was buried next to the church, is
being proposed for sainthood, church offi-
cials estimate as many as 100,000 people a
year will visit the site.

While Damien's original grave stands
beside the church, his remains were transfer-
red to Louvain. Belgium, in 1936.

The potential influx of pilgrimsand tourists
worries both the Kalaupapa patients' council
and ihe park serv ice. Currently 50 or 60 tour-
ists a day come here by air, or on mule back.
They stay a few hours and leave because
there are no overnight accommodations for
them.

To protect the area and shield the 125
patients currently living here, the park ser-
vice and the patients' council have agreed
upon a limit of 100 tourists a day.

The most popular method of arrival has
been the onc-und-n-hulf-mile mule ride

down the steep, twisting trail to the edge of a
blade-sand beach near Kalaupapa village.

From there the tourists board vans, oper-
ated by a patient who also has an- interest in
the mule train business, and driven through
die village and across the peninsula to
Kalawao, the site of the first leper colony. It
was there that Damein built his church.

While the tour vans do stop at the small
beer and soft drink bar in the village, oper-
ated by Mariano Rea, a patient there is very
little contact with the other patients, or with
the state health -department staff. There are
no tourist concessions.

People who Oy in by commuter airlines
from Honolulu can arrange to be pideed up at
the small airport by Richard Marks, 51, a
patient who operates two tour vans.

Marks is considered the unofficial historian
here and leads exploratory hikes into the
caves at the base erf the cliffs on the windward
side of Kalaupapa.

The andent Hawaiians built log rode walls
there as boundary markers, and constructed
walled planting areas and rock wind shelters.
The caves — lava tubes 10 to 20 feet in
diameter — formed natural shelters against
the elements in the early days.

According to Marks, the first leprosy vic-
tims were landed in 1866, near what is now
called Kalawao. King Kamehameha V pro-
vided nothing more than the food and do-
thing each person could carry as he swam
ashore.

In the mid -1800s leprosy was considered a
highly oontagious disease whose source was
unknown. The only action possible, from a
public health point of view, was isolation.

While leprosy had been recognized for

2.000 years throughout most of the world, it
was unknown in Hawaii, until the bacteria
were carried into the islands, probably by
immigrant workmen from Asia.

The disease attacks the peripheral nerves
and affects the skin and other body tissues,
causing lesions. Thelepromatousform of lep-
rosy is contagious, but only if left untreated.

Medical experts explain that leprosy vic-
tims lose feeling in their fingers, hands and
feet leading to disfigurement.

According to die expats, probably 85 per-
cent of the world's population is immune to
the disease, and could not contract it even if
they lived in close contact with an untreated
leprosy victim.

But, in Hawaii, in the 1860s, the
Polynesians were highly susceptible because
the disease was unknown and their bodies
had no immunities.

Between 1866 and 1969, when Hawaiian
officials belatedly recognized that the disease
when treated was not contagious, more than

7.000 people were banished to Kalaupapa.
Most were Hawaiian, but Asians and a few
Caucasians, including Father Damein con-
tracted the disease.

According to Marks and other historians,
there was no law on the peninsula, no social
structure to govern these outcasts. An occa-
sional Catholic priest would be sent to con-
duct religious ceremonies.

It was not until Father Damein volunteered
to live among the lepers that any one really
cared for them. Damien arrived in 1873 and
immediately set about organizing the people,
assisting them in building shelters and a hos-
pital.

At the time Damien arrived there were an
estimated 600 people living in the caves and
grass and rock shelters. He treated their
sores, nursed them and buried them. Those
that could helped him build St. Philomena’s
Church.

In 1SS4 Damien contracted leprosy, and
from the pulpit he quietly let his parishioners
known his condition by saying, “ We lepers,"
at tbe beginning of a Sermon. Damien
remained in the colony, with two other
priests, two brothers and a group of Francis-
can nuns until he died there on April 15,
1888.

From the outset, the Hawaiian govern-
ment, first the monarchy, and then the ter-
ritorial government, looked upon the
Kalaupapa exiles as wards who were to be
housed and fed and, after Damein arrived, to
receive medical care.

After the turn of the century the lepers
began moving from Kalawao on the wet,
windy side of the peninsula, to the drier cli-
mate of Kalaupapa. The resettlement was
completed by 1932.

were too “bad.

Some, like Timothy Hill, 13, bran
dished pipes and knives and bragged that
they would catch the killer — him, or it, or
them — and reap the $100,000 reward
that goes begging. Each child was pureu
ing his own American dream. And he fig-
ured the only way to get it was with

money.

Money is the ticket in the ghetto, like
everywhere else," King said.

So many of the victims took to the

streets to make their own way, running
errands for elderly neighbors, carrying
groceries, scrubbing whitewalls at the car
wadi, hustling to earn their own spending
money and to augment their families'
meager incomes. Curtis Walker, 13, gave
half of what he made to his mother.

Under normal circumstances, the
hard-knocks path would have made these
children survivors. But these are not nor-

mal times in Atlanta, and the children's
early independence and ambition made
them vulnerable to a calculating killer who
was able to penetrate their defenses. Their
yearning to escape poverty drove them
.onto the streets and made them available.

“ What surprises me," said King, "is that
these children, who understood the name
of the game, could be victimized by some-
one who could lure them into a situation
without any sign of combat. They weren't
carried away. They wanted to go.”

Everyone has a theory. “In my view,
one FBI agent said, offering his own,“the
(primary) killer is not a raving lunatic but
a calculating predator. If he doesn’t get
what he wants tonight, he waits until
tomorrow night. He's careful. If he
needed to satiate some need and couldn't
wait, he'd act anytime the need arose, and
would have made a mistake by now. He

hasn’t made a mistake.”

Police have been left with little to go on
no crime scene, no witnesses, no
weapon — just bodies: 22 black children
between the ages of 9 and 16, all boys
except two, and four young black men
small enough to look like children, two of
them mentally retarded. One child. Dar-
ron Glass, 10, remains missing. Ten have
turned up dead since Januarv.

The FBI said it believes it knows who
killed os many as four of tbe children.
Those cases, however, are not believed to
be connected with at least a dozen “pat-
tern killings," presumed committed by the
same killer or killers.

These, and perhaps more, are tied
togeth er by circumstantial evidence, rang-
ing from curious fibers found on the
bodies, cause of death, the location where
the bodies were discovered and
similarities in the victim’s street-wise pro-
files. The one thread weaving all the vic-
tims together is that they were all black, all

Two children were so hungry for money
they became involved with homosexuals,
police sources said.

The bodies have been found in woods,
off deserted country roads and, lately, in

rivers. Eight victims have been found in or
near rivers, leading authorities to specu-
late that the killer has been following news
accounts about evidence being found on
some bodies and wants to wash away any
clues. Others believe bridges just offer the
fastest means of disposal.

Seven victims have turned up wearing
only undershorts, fueling police specula-
tion about a sexual motive.

The fact that four recent victims were
adults leads some officials to believe that
the city’s curfew for children under 16 and

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NOSTALGIA AT BIKE RACE: Three men sit oa Curn-of-the century bicycles in lower
Manhattan, New York, for the start of a five-borough bike race in New York sponsored
by Citibank and American Youth Hostels. The race covered some 32 miles and attracted
about 17,000 cyclists.

U.S., Canada eye problem

Acid rains threaten nature

By Joanne Omang

AUGUSTA, Maine, (WP) — Near Ron
Irwin's vacation cabin in Ontario, Canada,
Crystal Lakes lie beautiful but dead in the
summer sun, their water too add to support
fish or even much bacterial life. There are at
least 140 lakes in that condition, Irwin said,
and thousands more are threatened.

Irwin, a member of the Canadian parlia-
ment, blames add rain born in the smokes-
tacks of American industry. “You feel so
helpless when you realize thesepoliutants are

OLD-TIMER: Josefa Lopez, 68, from
CaJo-Teo, a village in the northwestern
Spanish province of La Corona, walks
through tbe streets of Santiago, Spain,
every day selling milk wife the milk cans
balanced ou her head, as she has done
“since always.*’ Typdal of another age,
scenes such as (his are fart disappearing
before the advance of progress.

coming from hundreds or thousands of miles
away,” he said.

-Irwin sat with Sen. George J. Mitchell,
D- Maine, during the Senate Environmental
and Public Works Committee's first field
hearing on one of the thorniest problems of
rewriting tbe Clean Air Act: what to do about
add rain.

The Canadian government calls add rain
the most serious problem in its relations with
the United States, and Irwin, who chairs a
parliamentary committee on add rain, is dis-
appointed in the Reagan administration's
response so far.

“I get no sense that they have assigned it
any priority " he said after Tuesday’s hear-
ing. “There wasn't one word about policy."

Irwin and the sdentists on his side say add
rain forms when oxides of nitrogen and sulfur
— products of combustion in cars, power
plants and industry — combine with water in
fee atmosphere to form weak sulfuric and
nitric adds that precipitate hundreds or
thousands of miles away.

Leaves begin to turn brown at the edges,
defacing lettuce and other leafy crops. In
lakes, the adds kill fish eggs, frogs and bac-
teria that clean the waters.

“We know wbat has to be done," Irwin
said. “The emissions have to be controlled at
the source. The only question is, do we have
fee political will to do what is necessary?"

Scientists on fee other side, however, say it
isn't feat single. “Nobody denies there is
something going on," said Norman J. Tem-
ple, vice president of Central Maine Power
Co.,“but gome of it is from natural causes."

He said he fears “a rush to judgment that
would slap expensive- regulations on U.S.
poorer plants, drive up utility rates and later
prove unnecessary. “Even drastic cuts in
power-plant emissions might have little
noticeable effect” on add rainfall downwind,
he said.

There are only a few ways to get adds out
erf fee rain and none of them is dieap. The
1976 Clean Air Act tried to encourage fee
burning of low-sulfur coal by setting low pol-
lution standards. When feat threatened to
idle ^high-sulfur coal mines, the 1977
amendments exempted many such places. It
also^ttended air-cleanup deadlines and
waivtil others, notably those, set for auto
mamas cturers.

increased parental vigilance may be
depriving the killer or killers of available
children.

“The kids were taken because they
were available and vulnerable, and the
vulnerability was made possible by the
poverty in which they lived ” said Joseph
Lowery, president of the Southern Christ-
ian leadership conference.

“As long as homes are overcrowded
and children fee! they have to get out to
make ends meet and expose themselves
and become street-wise, then society has
to bear part of the blame.” he said.

When the killings began in July 1979,
few beyond the victims' families paid
attention. Only after angry mothers pro-
tested months Jarer did officials take a
closer look at the murders. The establish-
ment of a special police task force took a
year, after a dozen children had died.

Camille Bel! and some other mothers
say they believe something would have
been done sooner if the children had been
white, or from families of middie-class
blacks who run city government.

“It takes a little bit more to get people
concerned about a child out of the
ghetto,” she said.

In retrospect, the rate at which Atanta
children were and are being murdered is
“extraordinary,” about three times higher
than the norm.

But even more extraordinary are fig-
ures on how the recent string of murdered
young people died. Fifteen, more than
half fee 26 victims whose cases are under
investigation by the task force, were
asphyxiated .

“That s rarely the cause of death in that
age group,” said Fulton County District
Attorney Lewis Slayton. In the city's 1978
child murders, the victims were either
shot, stabbed or bluddgeoned.

Astronauts eager
for next launch
of space shuttle

By Thomas O’Toole

EDWARDS AFB, Calif. I WP) — The two
astronauts who flew it into orbit and flew it
home to earth described the winged space
shuttle Columbia Thursday as an incompar-
able flying machine that will give the United
States “routine access” to space for the next
20 years.”

This flight gives us what we’ve been trying
to do the last 10 years, it gives us routine
access to space,” Colwnbia commander John
W. Young told a news conference at the
Johnson Space Center in Houston. “1 tell
you, we're going to get this thing operational
sooner than anybody thinks."

So flawless was Columbia's maiden flight
that it may make its second test flight as early
as Sept. 23. a third flight as soon as Dec. 31
and its fourth and final test flight on April 30.

1 982. if the space agency adheres to feat kind
of schedule, Columbia could “go opera-
tional” and carry commercial satellites into
space as early as Sept. 15, 1982.

The way Young and astronaut Robert L.
Crippen talked about Columbia , it sounded
as though it could go operational next month.
Young said they had 135 flight objectives
when they left earth and completed all 135.

"I think we got'em all," said Young. “It
was a mission that can truly be called what
NASA calls nominal, although I think you're
going to have to call phenomenal. We're
going to do away with that word, 'nominal.' *'

“Nothing failed," said Crippen. “Statisti-
cally. I didn't think that was possible. We’ve
been working three years to learn how to
handle catastrophes and all we did tbe whole
time was sit back and enjoy it.”

From the time they left Cape Canaveral
until the time they touched down at Edwards
Air Force Base. Young and Crippen said feat
Columbia responded to every thing they
asked it to do.

They went into orbit with 1 3 ,000 pounds of
fuel stfll in reserve, twice what they expected
to have. The craft’s 44 engines and four com-
puters that drive the engines in orbit worked
flawlessly. The cargo bay doors opened and
closed just as they were supposed to. The
searing re-entry through the earth's atmos-
phere did not damage at all to the thousands
of formed glass tiles covering the underfusel-
age of the shuttle to protect if from the heat of
friction.

Young said that the temperature of fee
wings, tail and underbelly of the aluminum
fuselage never got hotter than 220 degrees
Fahrenheit, even though fee heat of friction
on the tiles coveting the fuselage rose to
2,400 degress and to 3,000 degrees on fee
nose and tail. This was when the shuttle was
at 300,000 feet and moving toward fee earth
at more than 24 times the speed of sound.

“We knew the temperatures were out
there, we could see the pink and orange glow
from all that heating through the cockpit
windows," Young said. “They just didn't get
into the vehicle, the tiles kept fee vehicle
cool."

Young said he bounded down the shuttle's
stairs after landing so he could see for himself
the condition of Columbia *s underside where
fee most punishing heating had taken place.
Said Young: “people had been telling us it
was impossible that some of these tiles
wouldn’t fall off. Well, none of them fell off
and those tiles went through some of the
roughest ascent and re-entry you can
imagine" 1

The two astronauts saved most at their
praise for the way Columbia handled during
its 5,000 mile glide over the Pacific Ocean to
a pinpoint landing in California's Mojave
Desert. Young said he could have used fee
wings, tail and elevons to fly it all by himself
through hypersonic flight right to touchdown-

“There’s no why you can compare a vehicle
wife wings on it to a ballistic body like Apollo
or Gemini," Young said, “You move fee
wings. somewhere and they stay there, you
move the nose somewhere and it stays there. I
think it's possible to fly fee whole re-entry
aerodynamically, this vehicle is a lot more
stable than we expected.*'

Young said he purposely landed Columbia
farther down fee seven-mil e-long runway
than he was asked to so he could test fee
shuttle's wings and tail for Uft.

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heart lead with the king of
diamonds and cash the 9-J of
trumps.

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trumps divided 3-2, ruff the
eight of hearts (let’s assume
the ace does not fall). Then
play a dub to dummy’s jack
and ruff the heart king with
your last trump. Now lead a
dob to the queen, cash the

your spade loser, and the rest
are yours.

The effect of adopting the
dummy reversal method of
play is chat you make six
trump tricks (dummy's Q-J-9
and the three heart ruffs in
your band), two spade tricks
and four club tricks. This type
of play is called “dummy
reversal” because declarer
reverses the usual procedure
of ruffing losers in dummy
and instead ruffs dummy’s
losers in his hand.

2. The correct lead at trick
teee is toe ten of hearts! This
seemingly aimless play offers
the best chance for the con-
tract, since the North hand
probably looks like this:
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of hearts, but instead play the
A-K of chibs, intending to ruff
the next dub in dummy. North
can defeat you by trumping
the third round of chibs,
leading the heart jade to his
partner’s ace, and trumping a
clob return by South.

The purpose of the heart
play is to sever North-South
communication in hearts as
soon as possible, and thus
assure the contract even if
North has only a double ton
dob. If you make the highly
unusual heart {day, toe only
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Horoscope

-■ Frances Drake

FOR FRIDAY,
What Sand of day will tomor-
row be? To find out what the
stars say. rend toe forecast
given for your birth Sign.

ARIES

(Mar. 21 to Apr. 19)

Shopping for the home
should be a pleasure. Befog
good-natured and optimistic is
the best way to get along with
close ties.

TAURUS
(Apr. 20 to May 29)

Luck for those in sales and
communications. Neighborly
visits should be fun. Job-
hunters should have success.
Income improves.

GEMINI

(May21to June 20 j ✓'

Enjoy hobbies. Communica-
tion with young people is
highlighted. You may get a tip
about a bargain. The after-
noon favors romance.

CANCER
(June 21 to July 22 i
Social life brings romantic
possibilities. Private talks
with family members have
happy results. Be c?:eful of
your health.

{July 23 to Aug. 22)
Behind-the-scenes career
moves pay off. Talks and
visits with friends are
stimulating. Someone puts in
a good word for you.

VIRGO

(Aug. 23 to Sept. 221
Weekend jaunts are
favored, and social life picks
up. Meetings with higher-ups

by THOMAS JOSEPH

ACROSS 41 Consumer

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5 Kiner
of baseball
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incoherent
11 Venerated

13 Cucbulain's
wife

14 Put out,
as a batter

15 Ventilate

16 Fencing
dummy

17 Sine qua —
IS Festive

symbol
30 Townsman

21 Fabled herb

22 Nota —

23 Japanese
volcano

25 Showed
displeasure

26 Carpus, e.g.

27 Sailing
hazard

28 “I— Camera’

29 Sad

32 Egyptian
cotton

33 Frequently

34 “Swinging
-Star”

35 Jewish song

37 Door sign

38 Repast

39 Apportion

40 Playing
marble

DOWN

1 Best part

2 Beloved
of Zeus

3 Huey Long
quote

4 Poetaster's
adverb

5 Almost
never

6 “Die Fleder-
maus*' role

7 Portion

S Tyrone Power
film

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12 Made
concave

MAY 5. 1981
are beneficial Don’t mny
about domestic matters.
LIBRA

(Sept. 23 to Oct 22) iSs i
Good news from a distance.
Sociability abets business
aims. Make plans for travel A
career matter needs flutter
thought

SCORPIO m _

(Oct 23 to Nov. 21)

Partners should enjoy
private moments together.
Travelers meet with happy
times. You may receive a
lucky tip about a money m ^.
ter.

SAGITTARIUS
(Nov. 22 to Dec. 21)

You'll enjoy improved rap-
port with a loved one. Now’s
the time to talk things over.
Good will leads to business
success.

CAPRICORN
(Dec. 22 to Jan. 19)

Romance is definitely on
your agenda. Good news may
pertain to a career interest
Higher-ups look favorably (hi
you.

AQUARIUS
i Jan. 20 to Feb. 18)

Both work and family mat-
ters are favored now. News
from a distance is also plea-
sant. When partying, be pro-
tective of health.

PISCES

i Feb. 19 to Mar. 20)

Enjoy hobbies and creative
pursuits. Relations with young
people should be fortunate. A
relative wants to help you out
in some way.

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6:2p Commentary

FRIDAY, MAY 8, 1981

LONDON, May 7 (R) — After two. years
of the monetarist medicine of Prime Minister
Margaret Thatcher, the British economy is
showing signs of pulling out of its steeo
recession. ^

Various degrees of cautious optimism arc
being expressed by government ministers,
businessmen and economists, but they all
agree that the worst decline in output since
tire 1939s has flattened out and some
improvement can be expected soon. The
London stock market index of leading indus-
trial share hit an all- time peak last week
before the rally was stopped by the realiza-
tion that interest rates will stay high to com-
pete with dollar rates.

Share buyers are betting that companies
which have cut their workforces and trimmed
export margins to the bone to stay afloat will
soon report higher earnings and better pro-
ductivity. But there have also been warnings
that such optimism is being overdone and
that, in any case, the main stock market indi-
ces have dropped well behind inflation in
recent years.

The Confederation of British Industry’s
latest survey, though the least gloomy for two
years and including some optimism about
export prospects, cautioned that there are no
signs of any general economic upturn yet.

Economists say 1981 will be another year
of negative growth, but gross domestic pro-
duct should rise by two per cent in 1982. Mrs.
Thatcher, in press interviews on the second
anniversary of her election to power on May
3, was careful not to promise good times
ahead and'her message was that the hard slog

AiablttttS Economy

Thatcherism begins to pay dividends

to restore industry's competitiveness must
not faiter.

_ “On the economic side, we have to con--
tinue with the policies which we have started,
which are now working,*’ shesaid.“ln thelasr-
few weeks there are signs that some com-:
parties are expanding and new ones starting"
up. There is a lot which will grow in the com- f
ing two years." But she conceded this would ’•
still leave her with an unemployment prob- ’
lem. The jobless rate is now 10.1 per cent of V
the workforce on a seasonally adjusted basis •;
°f 2.5 rail lion, and most economists see the ■.
total persisting at between two and three mil-
Lion for. some years.

The government* s main success has been in -
reducing inflation, which it made its major ;
priority. From a high of 22 per cent a year ;
ago, the annual inflation rate has been cut to \
12.5 per cent, although the opposition Labor
Party points out that this is still higher than
when it left office.

Government policy has been based on the f
monetarist theory of strangling inflation with i
high interest rates, control of die money sup- ;
ply, and pruning government spending to ^
shift resources to the private sector. Income 1
tax cuts were made initially, but Mrs.
Thatcher says the government has been
forced to spend huge sums to support '!
nationalized industries, such as steel, aod,
therefore, has not been able to cut its spend-

Steep fall in inflation;
economic outlook bright

ing as much as it would have liked.

Despite the wails of Conservative Party
members who wanted some reflation to
improve their political fortunes, the most
recent budget in March raised taxes on drink,
smoking and petrol to keep the government
deficit at a reasonable level, and was
regarded by most analysts as deflationary.

Despite widespread criticism at the time,
die tough budget set off a six-week rally on
the stock market and business welcomed the
cut in minimum lending rate to 12 per cent
after rates of 14 to 17 per cent for almost a
year and a half.

After two years of Thatcherism, however,
it is dear that Britain is still sharply divided
over the wisdom of the monetarist approach
and the course that should be followed to
arrest the nation’s long-term postwar
economic dedine.

Mrs. Thatcber’s ultimate aim is to create
conditions in which British industry * will

Arabs top .. . am*

West in aid Malaysia cuts oil price

. * a ^ KUALA LUMPUR, May 7 (R) — r it is renegotiating a deal it had more c

#- jrk /\ T V*l jr% Malaysia has cut the price of its high-quality - concluded with Kuwait to buy 30,000 B

IP I I 1 crude oil by one dollar a barrel because of a ‘an undisclosed premium.

TUNIS, May 7 (AFP) — Arab aid to
Africa over the past seven years totalled
^ some $6 billion far outstripping aids from
' 1 Western industrial nations, the president of
the Arab Bank for African Economic

* • Development said here Thursday. ‘

f Chedli Ayai told a conference of Arab and
r* African journalists here that 60 per cent of

* this aid, which had no commercial conditions
. attached to it, was spent on providing the

continent’s least developed states with an
economic infrastructure.

Comparing Arab and Western aid, he
! quoted the example of Kuwait, which he said
§ devoted 10 per cent of its gross national pro-
1 duct to such development aid, while aid from
developed countries never even reached one
* per cent.

He also called for increased cultural coop-
eration between the Arab world and Africa,
warning that financial and economic cooper-
ation on its own could have negative reper-
cussions on the relationship between the two
in the long run.

Thp journalists, mean while, approved a
final communique attacking the present sys-
tem of international economic relations, in
which “developed countries dominate
developing countries’*.

KUALA LUMPUR, May 7 (R) —
Malaysia has cut the price of its high-quality
crude oil by one dollar a barrel because of a
glut in the world market, oil industry sources
said Thursday.

They said the state oil company Petronas
had effected the cut by removing a
one— dollar premium hitherto imposed on
top of its official prioe, so that with effect
from May 1 it was charging from $38.80 to
$40.60 a barrel.

This followed complaints from buyers,
including the Japanese, that in a surplus-
ridden market Malaysia was charging too
much for its exports of about 230,000 barrels
per day (BP D). About 45 per cent of these go
to Japan and 27 per cent to the United States.
Malaysia, which made an earlier 50-cent
premium reduction in February, is not an
OPEC member nor is Egypt which has also
trimmed its oil price in the past month.

OPEC members hit by the glut indude
Nigeria, which saw the U.S. Ashland Oil
Company walk away from a 30,000 BPD
contract, and Kuwait which has failed to
make Western and Japanese buyers pay pre-
miums on top of its official price of $35.50.

Exporters impose such often- unpublicized
premiums when the market is tight, ostens-
ibly as a price for obtaining assured access to
oil on long-term contract.

Japan's Daikyo oil company said in Tokyo

r it is renegotiating a deal it had more or less
« concluded until Kuwait to buy 30,000 BPD at
.an undisclosed premium.

■ Daikyo told the reporters it was ren egotia t-
-ing following an instruction from the trade
: and industry ministry. London oil industry
I sources said another Japanese company,
! Idemitsu, was holding out against paying
| Kuwait a premium on 1 1 0,000 BPD.

j Foreign Exchange Rates

Quoted at SM P.M. Thursday

SAMA Cash Transfer
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Municipality
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4.

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6.

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9.

Shahinaz

10.

Char Ye

n.

Med mere

12.

Alaska

13.

An angel Fortune

18.

Achi Ileus

19.

La Costa

20.

Unilion

21.

Theanto AS.

22.

Primorje

23.

Talisman

24.

Hilco Skier

26.

Juyo Mam

27.

Wakamizu Mam

28.

Kota Maha

31.

Gafferdo

36.

Largs Bay

39:

0 Vina

41.

Imperial Star

42.

San Nicolaos

2. RECENT ARRIVALS:

Maintenance and operation of 3

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Normal maintenance of Jeddah 4

streets and roads

Temporary asphalting 9/2

11

Meat and vegetables market —

Construction of AI-Balarta 26

school

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take Mam Alireza Contrs/Gen.

naz Fayez Rice

Ye Abdallah Contrs/Gen ./Steel

iare A I sabah Bagged Barley

a O.C.E. Reefer

iel Fortune O.C.E. . Steel/Hose Pipes

eus Rolaco Bulk Cement

eta Alsabah Bulk Cement

m O. Trade Sorghum/Maize/

Timber

, to SSMSC Maize/Sorghum/Rice

, r i Q Attar Eggs/T obbaco/Cement

nan Barber Contrs/Bldg. Mat

Skier Star Reefer

Mam O.C.E. Reefer

nizu Mam Alireza Gen/Contrs.

delta O.C.E. General

do Star Reefer

Bay Kanoo Containers

a Fayez Durra _ „

ial Star O. Trade Tiles/Timber-Steel/

General

limiaaa O.C.E. Bagged Barley

Bahraini Dinar
Belgian Franc (1,000)
Canadian Dollar
Deutd* Mark (100)
Dutch Guilder ( 100)
Egyptian Pound
Emirates Dirham ( 100)
French Franc (100)
Greek Drachma (1,000)
Indian Rupee ( 100)
Iranian RiyaJ (100)

Iraqi Dinar
Italian Lira (10.000)
Japanese Yen ( 1.000)
Jordanian Dinar
Kuwaiti Dinar
Lebanese lira (100)
Moroccan Dirham (100)
Pakistani Rupee (100)
Philippines Peso (100)
Pound Sterling
Qatari Riy*J (100)
Singapore Dollar (100) .
Spanish Peseta (1.000)
Swiss Franc (100)

Syrian Lira ( 100)

Turkish Lira (1.000)

U.S. Dollar
Yemeni Riyal (100)

Selling Price Baying Price

Gotd kg. 52JOOJJO 51.700.00

10 Tolas bar 6.100.00 6,060.00

Ounce 1,660.00 1.625.00

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Gabel St. & SharaBa, Jeddah Trig. 6428932, 653O043

break out of its long-term trend of dedining
competitiveness. She is gambling that the fre-
eing of the economy from controls wii restore
business prosperity and end overmanning
and wage demands that far outstrip produc-
tivity.

Manufacturing industry, hit by a high
exchange rate caused by Britain's North Sea
oil and high interest rates, saw its output
dedine by almost a fifth in the past two years.
But a lower pound recently has given hopes
of stronger exports to come. The price has
been high in terms of unemployment, too
high Mrs. Thatcher’s opponents argue. Emp-
loyment Secretary James Prior told parlia-
ment last week that the jobless total would
peak before long, but the country would have
to live with higher unemployment levels than
those of the 1950s and 1960s.

The opposition Labor Party says the gov-
ern ment deliberately pushed the country into
economic dedine to frighten trade unions
into rcdudng wage demands, and that so

U.S. plans
to push up
grain sales

^WASHINGTON, May 7 (R) — The
United States has announced an intensive
campaign to increase export sales of wheat
and feedgrains to reduce the surplus it
expects this year.

Secretary of Agriculture John Block said
Wednesday targets for the new sales drive
would be China. Algeria, Brazil. Morocco
and Chile. All sales would be made through
private trade channels, but he first step would
be consultations government level to establ-
ish these countries' needs.

Block told reporters that expected large
supplies of grains this year “make it essential
to explore every promising avenue for
expanded exports."

London Commodities

Closing Prices

Men 7 MAY 6

Gold IS per ounce) 479.50 482.00

Silver casta (pence per ounce) 521.50 517.00

3 months 538.00 533.00

830.50
853.25

MAY 6

482.00

517.00

533.00
828.25
850.75

324.50

332.50

411.00

420.50

617.00

636.50

327.00
334210

405.00
412.50

613.00

633.00

Copper cash 830.50 828.25

3 months 853.25 850.75

Tin cash 5892.50 5890.00

3 months 5995.00 5995.00

Lead ash 324.50 327.00

3 months ~ * ' ' “ ' * 332.50 ' 334 JO

Zinc cash 411.00 405.00

3 months 420.50 412.50

Aluminium cash 617.00 613.00

3 months 636 JO 633.00

Nickel cash 3040.00 3030.00

3 months 3020.00 3020.00

Sugar August 179.50 180.10

October 181.00 182.20

Coffee May 1059.00 1057.00

July 1070 JO 1071.00

Cocoa May 910.00 911.50

July 926.00 930.50

Note: Prices in pounds per metric ten.

The above prices are provided by Saudi Research &
Investment Ltd.. P.O. Box 6474, Tel: 6653908,
Jeddah. .

3040.00 3030.00

3020.00 3020.00

1059.00 1057.00
1 070 JO 1071.00

24.5.81

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Red sea Cement
Hilco Skier
Anagel Fortune
Imperial Star

Petra Crown
Al Shehabia

Barber Contrs/Bldg Mat

Alsabah Bulk Cement

Star Reefer

O.C.E Steel/Hose Pipes

O-Trade Tiles/Timber/SteeV

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many businesses have gone bankrupt that
industry will not be able to take advantage of
any world trade upturn when it comes. A
group of 364 university economists con-
demned government monetarist policies as
wrong and a threat to national stability.

The main questions surrounding the
Thatcher monetarist experiment were put by
the London Sunday runes in an editorial on
the government’s second anniversary: 1 1 said:
u When the time for judgment comes, will this
extraordinary period be seen to have
revolutionized the attitude of the British, or
just temporarily changed their behavior?
Have trade union bargainers seen the light, or
merely seen the fear of unemployment?

“Have British workers understood that
productivity is an unending national problem
or will they revert to restrictive type when the
opportunity first occur? Is the government
effecting a fundamental shift in Britain's
course or conducting a brief experiment with
harsh immediate results and few long-term
benefits?”

The gloomiest view of the economy is held
by the Cambridge economic policy group
beaded by former treasury official Wynne
Godley. As it has for years, the group insists
there is only one cure for Britain's recurrent
problems, import controls. It believes indus-
trial restructuring can only occur when out-
put is grown rapidly, and that reflation cou-

pled with import controls is needed to give
industry a shot in the arm.

The Cambridge group says unemployment
will rise to 15 per cent, or 4. 5 million, by I9S5
unless present policies are changed, and the
balance of payments — now in healthy surp-
lus thanks to North Sea oil — will swing into a
large deficit.

The La bur Party has not nude up its mind
whether to favor devaluation or full-scale
protectionism. Leftwingers like Tony Benn
advocate import controls, but the party's
finance spokesman Peter Shore seems to
favor a sharp devaluation and lower interest
rates. Labor may also revive an incomes pol-
icy.

Labor held an eight per cent lead over the
Conservatives in a public opinion poll this
week, but the government could take comfort
from its finding that people were becoming
markedly less pessimistic about the country’s
economic prospects.

And Mrs. Thatcher, who has been adept at
projecting the image of a strong leader both
at home and abroad, was ahead of Labor
leader Michael Foot in people's preference
for prime minister. The Social Democrats, a
new party in British politics, think the people
are fed up with both major parties and will
turn to them for a middle-of-the-road
approach.

Mrs. Thatcher must call an election within
three years. The stock market, at least, is
betting that somehow she will engineer an
economic upturn for Britain well before the
polling.

Financial Roundup

Dollar stages recovery

By JJ1. Hammond

JEDDAH, May 7 — The dollar reco-
vered strongly over Wednesday night after
lagging toward the close to the European
trading day* Wednesday. European mar-
kets were worried that U.S. dollar interest
rates peaked and were nervously aw:uting
for further signs for easing of rates from the
Federal Reserve Bank in New York. The
dollar rose to close at nearly Tuesday's rate
in New York after the markets were reas-
sured that the United States policy on
tighter money policy would not change for
the time being. This message came across
from U.S. Treasury Secretary Regan who
was quoted as saying that the American
prime lending rate — at present standing at
19 per cent — might rise to 20 per cent in
the near future and that the present high
dollar interest rates will be with us for
sometime to come.

Locally, riyal deposit rates remained
stable, according to dealers who reported
slight rises during the day. One month
J'liBOR rates rose from 15 3/8-15 7 h per
centio 15V2-15V4 percent by the end of the
day. The longer periods similarly firmed
with one-year deposit rate rising from 15
%-15 % per cent to 1 5 , 'j - 16 percent. Spot
riyal against the dollar fluctuated at 336
10-20 with some moderate demand for the
dollar.

Dollar deposit rates firmed in Europe
from Wednesday s low of 18 13/16 for the

one month to 19 ’a-19V4 per cent for
Thursday afternoon levels. This is despite
the fact that the "Fed funds” rate eased to
I6V2 per cent in New York Wednesday
night after fluctuating from a low of 15 *'4 :
per cent to lT' z per cent high. This is the
rate which the Federal Reserve Bank of
New* York will lend to prime American
commercial banks. It seems Regan's words
did the trick in building up confidence in the
money markets.

On the European exchanges, the dollar |
remained stable according to dealers in
London. By late afternoon, trading in sterl-
ing reached 2.1 1 00 — a half cent drop from
New York's closing of 2.1 1 50. The German
mark, however, rose slightly against the dol-
lar from U.S. closing levels of 2.2585 to
2.23/2.24 levels. The Swiss franc remained
unchanged at 2.0625 levels and the yen was
stable at 217.25. It had risen quietly in New
York to 21 6.50 levels, but the fall was insig-
nificant. The French franc, the center of so
much attention these days fell again to 5.36
80 levels after closing in New York at
5.3350.

Thursday’s closing gold prices (in U.S.
dollars per troy ounce):

Thursday Wednesday
London 480.00 480.00

Paris
Frankfiirt
Zurich
Hong Kong

498.03

479.75

477.50

481.46

Wednesday

480.00

451.86

482.85

482.50

484.72

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PAGE 12

New direction soug ht

Reagan, Suzuki call
for harmonious ties

WASHINGTON, May 7 JAP) — U.S.
President Ronald Reagan welcomed Japan-
ese Prime Minister Zenko Suzuki to a two-
day round of meetings at the White House
Thursday calling for harmony between the
two nations and thanking Japan for its help in
checking Soviet expansionism.

Under sparkling skies on the south lawn of
.the White House, Suzuki noted that Japan
and the United States account for a full third
of the world's industrial production and
pledged “solidarity” and “cooperation" in
working fora future of global prosperity and
peace.

After a ceremony marked by trumpet fan-
fares, a marching band, massed troops and
flags and the traditional 21 -gun salute, the
two leaders entered the Oval Office where
they posed for photographs. Suzuki told
Reagan, as "a wave of Japanese cameramen
approached: “You are at best as well known
in Japan as 1 am.”

U.S. officials hope the summit meetings
between the two leaders will lead Japan to
take more responsibility for its own defense
and help guard sea lanes from an expanding
Soviet navy. But officially they dub it a
chance for the two to get'acquinted and to
“set the framework" for concrete decisions in
the future.

In his welcoming remarks. Reagan did not
refer directly to the American desire for
Japan to spend more on its self-defense
forces. But he did say thatheand Suzuki have
the opportunity to brings “freshness anda new
direction” to the relations between their two
countries and to “change the future course of
our friendship for peace.”

“Free societies must bear the respon-
sibilities of freedom together,” Reagan told
Suzuki. The American president referred to
the two countries as “friendly competitors”
but said that "what we create must blend into
the future.”

Thais use
bulls for
forecast

BANGKOK, May 7 (AP) — Two sacred
bulls at Thailand's colorful annual plowing
ceremony Thursday ate com and hay,
prompting royal astrologers to predict plenty
of meat and vegetables in the Kingdom this
year.

The 600-year-old ceremony, attended by
King Bhumipoi Adulyade], palace officials,
high government officials, military men and
members of the diplomatic community, calls
on the heavens to ensure fertility of the soil
for Thailand' s farmers.

The two bulls pulled a gold-colored plow
nine times in a circle at Bangkok's central
Pram nine ground, preceded by a high priest
of the royal household who poured sacred
water onto the field.

The undersecretary of state for agriculture,
who acted as master of ceremonies, scattered
blessed rice seed behind the plow, and then
the bulls were offered the choice of seven
substances to eat.

A choice of rice or com means an abun-
dance of meat and vegetables. Beans or
sesame seeds represent fruit and vegetables.
Hay or water indicates plentiful rain, meant,
vegetables and fruit. A choice of drink indi-
cates good communication, foreign trade and
economic growth.

Bonn rejects U.S. plea

BONN, May 7 (AFP) — - Sources close to
the West German Government Thursday
rejected outright a demand from U.S.
Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger that
Washington's Western allies reiterate a 1 977
pledge lo raise defense spending by three per
cent in real terms.

Speaking to the American Newspaper Pub-
lishers’ Association in Chicago Wednesday,
Weinberger recalled the commitment all
North Allan tic Treaty Organization (NATO)
members made four years ago. Most gov-
ernments have fallen well short of the target.

And he thanked Japan for penalizing the
Soviet Union for its “violent aggression in
Afghanistan" and for having “imposed sanc-
tions against tyrants.”

He said the two countries should always be
challenged by their own achievements and
said: “Let us always remember and let the
world be aware — Japan and America will go
forward together.”

Suzuki said he has promised to be candid in
his talks with Reagan and other American
leaders and said it is “my fondest desire to
consolidate the bonds of friendship between
our two countries.”

Hours before Suzuki” s arrival in Washing-
ton Wednesday, a Reagan administration
official characterized recent Japanese
defense spending trends as “healthy” but.
nonetheless, contended that if faced with a
full-scale attack Japan probably could not
mount a credible defense.

The official emphasized that Japan is not
being asked to replace American forces in the
Far East or to take on a high visibility military
assignment contrary to the anti-war provi-
sions of irs constitution or to the traditions
that have developed since the end of World
War U.

Rather, he said, the United States seeks
Japanese recognition of the increasing seri-
ousness of the Soviet Union and help to meet
that threat by increasing surveillance over
some of the vital sea lanes in the North
Pacific.

He said the United States also would Hke to
see a beefed up defense of the Japanese
homeland and increased Japanese assistance
to the economies «.f other nations important
to the non-Communist world. “A larger
Japanese maritime self-defense force would
be an appropriate measure,” said the official.

UJS. Defense Secretary Caspar W. Wein-
berger recently asserted that the United
States spends six times more than Japan to
keep Far Eastern defenses strong and that
Japan must spend more on defense than the
current rate of I per ent of its gross national
product.

“It’s no secret that it would be far prefer-
able from the point of view of American offi-
cials to see that rate gradually increase to
reflect a recognition of the increased threat,"
the U.S. official said. He said he couldn't
“hold out much hope” that the Suzuki visit
will produce instant or concrete decisions.

A prime purpose for the meeting, he said,
is to give Reagan and Suzuki an opportunity
to establish a personal relationship. “The
visit is important from a psychological point
of view and it is fully issumed its principal
objective will be harmony," the official said.

BELFAST PROCESSION: A funeral procession passes from the home at Bobby Sands, the IRA guerrilla leader who efied Tuesday
after a hunger strike, to a church We dnesday.

French poll outcome remains open

PARIS, May 7 ( R) — A handful of votes in
presidential elections next Sunday could
decide whether France swings to the left
under a Socialist or remains on a center-right
course for seven more years.

Despite the apparent consolidation of lef-
tist support behind Socialist Francois Mitter-
rand and of formerly fractious rightist group-
ings behind outgoing President Valery Gis-
card dT Estaing, French commentators say the
outcome remains wide open.

The 55-year-old G beard cf Estaing was
lagging three percentage points behind Mit-
terrand in the final opinion poll published last
weekend. But .Wednesday night he gained
some comfort from an implicit appeal by
Paris Mayor Jacques Chiracto the 18 per cent
of the electorate, who backed him in the first
round of the contest, against voting for Mit-
terrand.

At the same time Communist officials,
whose leader Georges Marchais pledged

party backing for the Mitterrand, hinted they
might have difficulties in swinging their vot-
ers for a candidate who refused to endorse
sweeping reforms.

The support of a vast majority of the 5.2
million people who voted for Chirac, a
former prime minister who campaigned as
the standard-bearer of the Gaul list tradition,
is vital for Giscard tfEstaing’s re-election.

Equally, Mitterrand needs the 4.4 million
first-round Communist voters to switch to
him. He also has to gain support from the
center of the political spectrum where anti-
communist feelings run strong. The two can-
didates, who qualified for Sunday’s ballot by
heading the poll in the first round April 26,
met in a television debate this week which
had been widely expected to have a major
influence on the voting.

In 1 974, when they also contested the pres-
idency, the Socialist leader's lack-lustre per-
formance in a similar debate was credited bv

French analysts with contributing to his nar-
row defeat. But this week, according to a
range of independent press commentators,
neither candidate scored an obvious advan-
tage.

Chirac suggested Wednesday night that the
debate had impelled him to make his state-
ment warning his supporters, who may have
contemplated voting. Social ist, of what he
called the risks France would run if Mitter-
rand won.

The 4 S- year- old Paris mayor, dearly now a
force with whom any future president would
have to reckon, said he had seen that Mitter-
rand persisted in espousing policies “which
have failed wherever they have been tried.”

At the same time Giscard if Estaing, he
argued, had shown signs of wanting to reduce
bureaucracy and taxation while offering
more opportunities for private initiative and
reducing unemployment.

In parliament; and government

Solidarity seeks leadership

SHARING : A child and a dog share a tortilla at a refugee camp in El Salvador Thursday.
A dvil war is going on in Q Salvador to oust the U-S. -backed civilian-military junta.

WARSAW, May 7 (Agencies) — Some
members of Solidarity, the national indepen-
dent union federation, should soon be
allowed to enter both parliament and tbp
government, federation leader Lech Walesa
said Thursday. *

“Changes of people (in government) are
not yet satisfactory.” Walesa said during a
morning news conference in the Baltic sea*
port of Gdansk. "I’ve always thought that the
social movement Solidarity would bring
along members who would demonstrate
intelligence, organization and logic.”

If some such personalities distinguish
themselves, he said, “I hope that in the future
the Sejm (parliament) and the government
will resort to their intelligence and capacity to-
govern.” For the present, he said, one must'
wait for “real militants to impose themselves,- .
before using them when the time comes,;
maybe in six months, maybe in a year.”

“ Weare (now) in the depths of great choas,
and I will not propose other modifications
because it would only make the situation '
Vvorse,” Walesa said. Any proposals to .
change leaders now would serve no purpose
because “we do not exactly know who we V
would get,’* he said. A new official might turn ’
out “even worse” than his predecessor, he '
added. a

Charles, Diana obtain injunction against publication of tapped talk

LONDON. May 7 ( AP) — A British court
Wednesday ordered a free-lance journalist
not to distribute purported transcripts of
telephone conversations between Prince
Charles and his fiancee. Lady Diana
Spcnccr.

The journalist. Imon Regan, has been try-
ing lo peddle the transcripts to the highest
bidder, and a West German magazine con-
firmed it was considering taking them up on
the deal.

Regan claims he was allowed to transcribe
tape-recorded conversations between
Charles and Diana after meeting some
Australians who had lapped the prince’s
phone line while he visited that country last
month. The phone tappers wanted to dis-
credit the prince and block his possible
appointment us Australian governor general.
Regan said.

Regan and others who claim to have read
the transcripts say they contain some unflat-
tering comments by Charles about Australia
and its leaders as well as bits of intimate con-

versation between the prince and Diana. The
high court granted the couple an injunction
Wednesday restraining Regan frpm “disclos-
ing. divulging or making use of’ the allegedly
bugged conversations.

Regan said he would abide by the order,
assuming he still held the copyright to the
transcripts, but added that the West German
magazine. Die AktueUe , was determined to
print excerpts from the transcripts in its next
weekly edition, to be printed and distributed
Sunday.

”1 don't know whether a legal injunction
over me is going to stop them,” Regan was
quoted as saying by Press Association, the
British domestic news agency. “German
magazine lawyers have told me that there was
nothing to prevent them.” he said.

The Australian government has expressed
serious doubts about the authenticity of the
supposed transcripts because of discrcpcn-
ties between Regan's -account of the number
of conversations taped and what the govern-
ment says was the actual number of calls.

The bugging supposedly took place last
month while Charles was staying about 480
kms from Sydney at an isolated farmhouse
owned by an old friend. One phone conversa-
tion also involved Charles and Queen
Elizabeth II. Regan claimed.

Wednesday afternoon. Buckingham
Palace issued a statement saying: “it is not
known whether these tapes are genuine. But
in view of Regan's claims, an application to the
high court was made this afternoon on behalf
of the Prince of Wales and Lady Diana ”

The application was made in a brief private
hearing before a chambers judge in the Royal
Courts of Justice, London. A chambers judge
hears in private applications in pending pro-
ceedings in the queen's bench division of the
high court. The nature of the injunction indi-
cated that Charles issued u writ initiating an
action.

Told of the injunction. Regan said: "How
intriguing. 1 don't know where l stand at all
on this. I suppose I will have to take legal
advice,” Press Association said.

“Presumably, i will have to receive the ’
injunction and then see what situation l am v
in,” the news agency quoted him as saying. *
" Obviously, if I do still bold copyright over
what I have written, then the palace has sue- - L
ceeded. . {

“There are many ways 1 welcome the i
injunction because it will clear up things to a
certain extent, and we can have a look at the
whole story,” the agency quoted him as say-
ing. The royal family traditionally tries not to
become involved in the courts.

Only once in modern history has a member

Meanwhile, Stanislaw Gucwa and other
leaders of-the United Peasants Party resigned
Thursday, a party spokesman said, after not-
ing that their position on fife soon-to-be
registered private farmers' union did not
please party members.

The. spokesman confirmed Polish news
agency reports that the resignations were
accepted by the central committee of the
party which joins the Gommunist and democ-
ratic parties in the ruling national unity front
The resignations came the day after the
Polish parliament passed a law paving the
way for legal registration of an independent
union of private farmers similar to Solid arity .

The party, official representative of
Poland’s peasants, has begun looking for new
i leaders, PAP reported. "The stand we took
regarding the independent farmers trade
L- union movement did not win approval of

appeared in the witness-box. That was in i ™ member ” or

.891. when Edward VII. dren Prince of I

,^nik iMdowy.

* ■ 1. nt. l recently, t iucw,i had opposed rojisi-

vVales, gave evidence in a slander case by Sir
Milium Gordon Gumming who was accused
of cheating at baccarat.

In 1937. the Duke of Windsor won a libel
action against a publishing firm. In 1959 n
former superin tend ent of Windsor Castie was
restrained from - publishing information
gained during his royal service.

ration of a union said to represent some
800,000 of Poland’s 3-5 million private far-
mers. But last week. he altered his view in the
wake of governmen t promises to register, the
union after a month-long sit-in at the UPP
'offices in Bydgoszcz, northwest Poland.

Good Morning

By Jihad A1 Khans

“Keeping up with the Joneses" is an
old, old business. But recently 1 saw on
television an example of it which surely
would take some beating.

For here was an American village
whose sole means of transport was the
airplane. The village was nothing bat a
row of houses along the two sides of a very
wide street: which was no street but a
runway. Every family had its own aiip-
lane, which it parked in its own garage, as
anyone else would park the car. You then
wheeled the plane onto the main road, and
up and away into the blue yonder.

“The Joneses" to keep up with this case
are not those with an airplane: since
everyone had one. They were the "two
plane family 1 '; with a silvery grev two-
engined five sea ter job for the father and
little single-engine job for mum to do her
shopping in.

All of us, of coarse, have sought to play
the part of the Joneses in some way at
some point in our lives.

I remember when I was a schoolboy I
used to hide my trashy movie magazines
inside very serious looking tomes, causing
everyone to shake their heads in admira-
tion at what a serious little chap I was.
Envious friends, however, soon disco-
vered and publicized the truth.

And 1 remember a horned little
“Jones” from that same era, who used to
sit in the school library looking very
bored, doing twenty crossword puzzles an
hour, throwing each one in the dustbin in
turn and sighting why they make them so
easy and urtiaf s a chap of his intellectual
caliber supposed to do for mental recrea-
tion...

Until one day we had enough and
inspected the dustbin. Not a single one ot
the crosswords was properly done. He'd '
just scribbled any letter in so as to impress
us....

Translated from Ashruq AlAwsot

Waldheim
arrives in
Belgrade

BELGRADE. May 7 (Agencies) -
United Nations Secretary General Kurt ffia
dheim arrived here Thursday from Mosco
on a five-hour visit for talks with Yugosk
leaders on what he described as an extreme!
serious international situation.

In a statement on arrival, Waldheim sak
“the world is facing an extremely serioe
international situation. We are almost ai A
crossroads between peaceful coopera mm and
confrontation. I can only hope the wort
chooses the second." He declined to answe
questions or explain whether his rcmait
referred to any specific area of the worid.

Waldheim was due to hold separate fwrf
ings with Yugoslav Foreign Minister Jaa|
Vrbovec, Prime Minister Vesel in Djuraium
and President Cvijetin Mijatovic. The talk
will center on international, political am
economic problems, and the activities of tte
nonaligned movement, of which Yugoslavia
is permanent member, officials said.

During his four-day official visit *°
Mosocw, Waldheim conferred with Sovid
President Leonid Brezhnev and Fore#
Minister Andrei Gromyko. The talks, wiw*
covered East- West relations, the Mid*
East, and Afghanistan, appear to
yielded no appreciable results in the opinnx
of observers here.

Waldheim had indicated that he would to
using the visit to promote a meeting betwetf
Brezhnev and United States Preside*
Ronald Reagan, and was also interested ir
Soviet proposals for a summit conference “
nations represented on the U.N. SeeuflU
Council.

His visit dosed with a trip to the Ukrai

capita! of Kiev, where he met Poltib*>{“
member and Ukrainian Communist f^rty
chief Vladimir DozerbitskL They had ^
tiie Soviet news agency, Tass, described f 8,1
exchange of views on the international sin**
tion.”

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